Re: Web Notifications I18N Review: [I18N-ISSUE-161, I18N-ISSUE-162]

This brings up a good point that I wanted to share with the group.  A few months ago, I audited the many native notification system.  Most of these systems do not have any concept of RTL/LTR.  Lets make sure we express this fact in the spec by calling out that NotificationDirection is only a hint.  I would hate to have web developers depend on this working on systems that clearly can't support it.

As for language of their user-visible text - The same is going to be true. 

Regards,
Doug Turner

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From: "Addison Phillips" <addison@lab126.com>
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Subject: Web Notifications I18N Review: [I18N-ISSUE-161, I18N-ISSUE-162]

Hello, Web Notifications,

The Internationalization Core WG has actioned me [1] with relaying our review comments of your document:

   http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/notifications/raw-file/tip/Overview.html

Dated: 2012-06-27

We are tracking these items as I18N-ISSUE-161 and I18N-ISSUE-162 in Tracker [2].

Our comments are:

161: Notifications have no way to identify the language of their user-visible text (title and body). Knowledge about the language is often necessary for the user agent to select the right font or to pronounce the text correctly - see http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-why

[there are similar comments from other WG members]

162: (Section 5) It's a little odd that title is converted to Unicode before setting the direction, while body has its direction set first. Can those be made consistent? [This is an editorial comment and minor]

[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/06/27-i18n-minutes.html I18N-ACTION-134
[2] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/161
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/162 

Thanks and best regards (for I18N)

Addison

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

Received on Thursday, 28 June 2012 00:37:05 UTC