RE: Web Notifications I18N Review follow up: [I18N-ISSUE-161][I18N-ACTION-141]

With regard to I18N-ISSUE-161:
> >
> >> 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

> >
> > The Working Group would like you to add the language attribute to the
> > title and body elements as requested.
> 
> This is now added, but only at a global level (same for direction).
> Adding more granularity at this point before getting more deployment
> experience seems unwise.
> 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/notifications/raw-file/tip/Overview.html

> 

The Internationalization Core WG discussed your changes [1] and is satisfied by this change regarding the addition of a 'language' attribute. (Under separate cover I will respond regarding 'direction').

Thanks,

Addison

[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/07/25-i18n-minutes.html#item07


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

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2012 23:06:53 UTC