- From: Karl Fritsche <karl.fritsche@cocomore.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:48:23 +0100
- CC: <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>, www-international <www-international@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <51273EE7.3070001@cocomore.com>
Hi all, On 22.02.2013 10:33, Felix Sasaki wrote: > Hi Karl, > > one process thing: please keep the www-international list in the loop, > since the i18n guys will need to look into the issue too. One comment > below. > > Am 22.02.13 10:27, schrieb Karl Fritsche: >> On 22.02.2013 10:16, Jirka Kosek wrote: >>> On 22.2.2013 6:55, Felix Sasaki wrote: >>> >>>> What would your preference be for resolving this: >>>> - asking HTML5 to change its semantics >>> I think that HTML5 spec should be changed and attributes should be >>> removed from translation. Or as a compromise only title and alt >>> attributes should be considered as translateable. >>> >>> Jirka >>> >> The Problem in HTML5 is, you don't have any option to allow >> translation of attributes. > > But where do you need this, except title and alt? > >> We can use rules, but this doesn't exists in HTML5. Thats why they >> using this behavior, I think. > > Actually implementations don't use this - I checked the online MT > translation systems that do HTML translation, and they don't translate > attributes. > >> And to say some attributes are considered to be translatable and >> others not, would be very confusing. Specially what are you doing >> with data-* attributes - are they are translatable or not? Thats why >> I think they considered everything as translatable and the >> translation software should handle this. > > So you are saying we should disalign ITS XML "translate" versus HTML > "translate"? What will happen then for workflows like with > Linguaserve, who do XML processing of XHTML files as part of their > workflow chain? No, we should definitely find a solution, which in the best case is the same for ITS and HTML. Only wanted to clarify, that maybe somebody want also translate his data-* attribute, but in HTML5 you can't specify, which attribute should be translated and which not. Best, Karl > > Best, > > Felix >> >> > > -- *Karl Fritsche*, Junior Software Developer Tel.: +49 69 972 69 2604; Mob.: +49 1520 206 30 93; Fax: +49 69 972 69 199; Email: Karl.Fritsche@cocomore.com <mailto:karl.fritsche@cocomore.com> *Cocomore AG,* Gutleutstraße 30, D-60329 Frankfurt Internet: http://www.cocomore.de <http://www.cocomore.de/> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cocomore Google+: http://plus.cocomore.de <http://plus.cocomore.de/> Cocomore is active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Vorstand: Dr. Hans-Ulrich von Freyberg (Vors.), Dr. Jens Fricke, Marc Kutschera, Vors. des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Velasco, Sitz: Frankfurt/Main, Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 51114
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