On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:42 +0100, Toby Inkster wrote: > It might be useful, for accessibility[1] reasons, and for allowing > third party tools to offer translations, it might be good if there > were a way to indicate the language of a notice. > > I'm not going to suggest a UI for this, as it would likely only be > annoying for end users. However, here are some ideas: > > * It could be added to the API to allow other tools that do have > language information to pass it on. > > * A convention could be established using hashtags to indicate > languages. I've done a little experimentation and think that #.en, > #.fr, #.pl, etc might be a good pattern to use. Of course, right now, > the dots are canonicalised out. > > ____ > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-identify-changes
I really like this idea, because it is pretty simple. But, I wonder if it brings us back to the idea of providing meta-data for notice items. For instance, do we make exceptions to marking reviews, geo, events, languages etc., or do we do adapt machine tags? or both? In any case, we can could always make #. an exception to the hashtag rule. -Sarven _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
