W3C

GEO telecon

18 Oct 2006

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Richard_Ishida, John_O'Conner, David_Clarke
Regrets
Russ_Rolfe, Pasquale_Popolizio
Chair
Richard
Scribe
r12a

Contents


 

 

Topic: Should we abandon content-negotiation on the i18n site?

drc: keep content negotiation but say at the top of the document that the real document is in english
... mediocre translation is probably better than nothing
... might stop when sees the page is in english

ri: we do have a disclaimer at the top of the page

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-charset.es.php

this shows an example

ri/dc: maybe we should say more clearly that this is a volunteer translation with no guarrantee of accuracy

dc: possibly bring up the name of the translator to place just below the disclaimer

jo: add perhaps that this is unverified volunteer translation

Progress on charters

charters still in preparation

will be sent to w3m in a week or so

still planning to roll GEO into Core WG, and move spec devt into other WGs

What's the use of :lang?

Blog post at http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=67

please read and come back with any comments/questions

New version of UniView released

now supports Unicode 5

(see http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=65 )

jo: we should add this tool to the getting started area of the website

ri: note that it is already here http://www.w3.org/International/resources#tools

john to come back after thinking further

IE7 seems set to break language negotiation on the Web

(see IE blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/17/accept-language-header-for-internet-explorer-7.aspx

and my response at http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/)

discussion followed to get an understanding of the issue

Next meeting

no call next week - richard speaking at LRC conference

Summary of Action Items

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