Re: Last Call: WG Note: Ruby Use Cases [I18N-ACTION-230]

>When we refer here to fallback, we mean what happens when a browser
>doesn't support ruby. If a browser doesn't support ruby, the content of the
> ruby element will be produced as ordinary characters, in the order in which
>they appear inside the ruby element.

I have a comment on the above paragraph in the draft.

Some browsers do now know anything about <ruby> and other tags,
and they just handle their contents while ignoring start and end tags.

Other browsers know these tags and they provide ruby formatting.
So far so good.

But I can  imagine that yet other browsers know these tags but
do not provide ruby formatting.  Rather, they just put  an open
parenthesis, ruby text, and a close parenthesis as text after
the ruby base.  I would say that such browsers also do "fallback".
How about "ruby-aware fallback" and "ruby-unaware fallback"?

Regards,
Makoto

2013/6/3 Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>:
> The Internationalization Working Group is preparing [1] to publish a new "Note" status document "Use Cases & Exploratory Approaches for Ruby Markup". This email serves as a "Last Call" for comments on the document.
>
> The current draft is located here:
>
>    http://www.w3.org/International/docs/ruby/
>
> This document was designed to support discussion about what is needed in the HTML5 specification, and possibly other markup vocabularies, to adequately support ruby markup. It describes a number of use cases associated with ruby usage, and then examines a number of possible ruby markup approaches for each use case, listing pros and cons for each approach.
>
> Please send any comments to this list (www-international@w3.org) as soon as possible. This last call ends 12 June 2013.
>
> Addison
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2013/05/30-i18n-minutes.html#item06
> [2] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/230
>
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
> Chair (W3C I18N WG)
>
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.
>

Received on Friday, 5 July 2013 01:56:11 UTC