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<scribe> Scribe: r12a
David: Computer Weekly couple of weeks ago ran article saying that people should learn XHTML and pointing to
the W3C site
... ie. move away from HTML
... CW is a UK magazine with v wide circulation
... interesting that they are promoting w3c site for learning
... i have involvement with amazon affiliates scheme, and question arose about identifying audience
... DC mentioned that should be careful about trusting HTTP request language and referred to i18n material
RI: IE7 won't support the styling used in our article template - though there should be a workaround
... we can use until they can fix it
... lots of translations coming through at the moment
... also new php based article template available - particularly helpful translation mgt
... RFC 3066 is dead, long live RFC 4646 and RFC 4647 (aka BCP 47)
... lot of outreach in India in August - details on home page
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
Currently in review - some changes made based on feedback
- any comments before publishing? Agree to publish?
RI: Comments on content?
RR: IE6 has problem displaying the first side note
DC: Currently in review - some changes made based on feedback
- any comments before publishing? Agree to publish?
ignore last two lines
DC: its companion, RFC 4647 Matching of Language Tags, describes
... the link is incorrect
RI: propose publishing on Monday morning
Agreed: OK to publish Monday
RR: Ri has done some, not a great deal outstanding
... one comment about tutorials, said not enough data, info unuseful - we're confused about why, but no email to get back to them
... overall: it takes a lot of work to get into the spreadsheet, so looking whetehr there's a way to autoatically drop into a db
... discussion about possibly reformatting info in emails to be machine readable
RR: what's happening?
RI: not much yet, i've been out all of August and now catching up