Hi Art, Thanks for the reminder. We will follow up shortly.
Addison Addison Phillips Globalization Architect (Lab126) Chair (W3C I18N, IETF IRI WGs) Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture. > -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur Barstow [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:00 AM > To: Richard Ishida; Phillips, Addison > Cc: Marcos Caceres; 'www-archive' > Subject: Fwd: Fwd: ISSUE-117: In Widget P&C Spec, need to clarify > in the spec that dir attribute does not apply to attributes that > are IRIs, Numeric, Keywords, etc. The dir attribute only affects > human readable strings. > > Richard, Addison - we would greatly appreciate it if the I18N WG > would > please follow-up Marcos' email below. When you do, please include > the > public-webapps mail list. > > -Thanks, Art Barstow > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Fwd: ISSUE-117: In Widget P&C Spec, need to clarify in > the > spec that dir attribute does not apply to attributes that are IRIs, > Numeric, Keywords, etc. The dir attribute only affects human > readable > strings. > Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:16:33 +0200 > From: ext Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > CC: public-webapps <[email protected]> > > > > Hi members of the i18n WG, > > During implementation, Opera found that I had made a mistake with > the > way I has specified how the dir attribute is applied (I had applied > it > to all attributes, and then left it up to the user agent to display > the attribute values properly). The problem was that what I had > specified introduced significant overhead because it meant that > directional hints were being derived even for attributes where it > made > no sense (e.g., for URIs). > > Below is my proposed solution to this issue. If you could find the > time to comment, that would be great. The latest editors draft > incorporates the proposed solution below: > > http://http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/ > > Kind regards, > Marcos > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Marcos Caceres<[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:41 PM > Subject: Re: ISSUE-117: In Widget P&C Spec, need to clarify in the > spec that dir attribute does not apply to attributes that are IRIs, > Numeric, Keywords, etc. The dir attribute only affects human > readable > strings. > To: Web Applications Working Group WG<[email protected]> > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Web Applications Working Group > Issue > Tracker<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ISSUE-117: In Widget P&C Spec, need to clarify in the spec that > dir attribute does not apply to attributes that are IRIs, Numeric, > Keywords, etc. The dir attribute only affects human readable > strings. > > > > http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/117 > > > > Proposed solution: > > I've defined a "Displayable-string attribute: An attribute whose > primary purpose is to convey human readable information, such as > the > name element's short attribute and the widget element's version > attribute." > > As just stated, the widget element's version attribute becomes a > "displayable-string attribute". So does the short attribute of the > name element. > > The author's email attribute is now treated as a keyword attribute > (hence, dir is not applied to it). I know this is not ideal, but > it's > a cheap solution and saves having to define yet another type of > attribute. > > The name and value of the param attributes are now defined as > keyword > attributes (hence, dir is not applied to them). > > The dir attribute is now defined as "A keyword attribute used to > specify the directionality in which human-readable text is to be > represented by a user agent (e.g., the text content of the name > element, the description element, and the license element). The > directionality set by the dir attribute applies to the text content > and any displayable string attributes of the element where it is > used, > and to child elements in its content unless overridden with another > instance of dir." > > The "Rule for Getting a Single Attribute Value" now only returns a > localized string "if and only if the attribute is a displayable- > string > attribute". Hence, all attributes are processed as strings and dir > has > no effect on them. > > The "Rule for Getting a List of Keywords From an Attribute" no > longer > returns a localized string (as directionality does not apply to > this > kind of attribute). > > -- > Marcos Caceres > Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ > http://datadriven.com.au >
