- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:05:57 +0900
- To: koba <koba@antenna.co.jp>
- CC: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, www-style@w3.org, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "public-i18n-cjk@w3.org" <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
I agree with Tokushige, Glenn, and Addison. As an additional argument, based on my long work in internationalization, I have always felt that while it may not be hopelessly bad to have gratuitous differences for features of specs that are widely used. But having such differences in features that are used only rarely, in particular in internationalization, is really, really bad. Also, I would like to point everybody to http://www.w3.org/Style/, which among other things says: "CSS and XSL use the same underlying formatting model and designers therefore have access to the same formatting features in both languages. W3C will work hard to ensure that interoperable implementations of the formatting model are available." This is part of a common understanding that was gained at a time when there were heavy clashes between the proponents of the two technologies. For some background, please also see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jun/0040.html. Regards, Martin. On 2012/09/24 10:56, koba wrote: >> Saying "hard to understand" is subjective, so not everyone may agree. If you change "speculation" to "subjective," it's more understandable. But when a good number of people say "hard to understand for me," even if it's subjective and even if it's not hard to understand for you, shouldn't we take them into account? > > When I first read XSL-FO spec, it was difficult to undertand > before/after for me too. But the difficulty was caused by > the concept of logical direction but not by terminology. > > You had better to analyse why people says "hard to understand". > IMO, a change of terminology will not make the issue easy. > > Regards, > > Tokushige Kobayashi
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