15:58:06 RRSAgent has joined #core 15:58:06 logging to http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-irc 15:58:10 Zakim has joined #core 15:58:15 zakim, this will be I18N 15:58:15 ok, aphillip; I see I18N_CoreWG()12:30PM scheduled to start in 32 minutes 15:58:26 RRSAgent, set logs world-visible 15:58:40 Meeting: Internationalization Core Teleconference 15:58:48 Scribe: Addison Phillips 15:58:49 ScribeNick: aphillip 15:58:53 Chair: Addison Phillips 15:59:10 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2010Jun/0009.html 15:59:16 RRSAgent, make minutes 15:59:16 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-minutes.html aphillip 16:02:27 David has joined #core 16:08:20 David has joined #core 16:28:46 r12a has joined #core 16:29:37 I18N_CoreWG()12:30PM has now started 16:29:44 +Addison_Phillips 16:30:01 zakim, dial richard please 16:30:01 ok, r12a; the call is being made 16:30:02 -Addison_Phillips 16:30:02 +Addison_Phillips 16:30:03 +Richard 16:31:36 David has joined #core 16:32:08 Norbert has joined #core 16:32:36 + +1.408.349.aaaa 16:34:29 + +44.141.888.aabb 16:34:46 zakim, +44 is David 16:34:46 +David; got it 16:36:27 Regrets: Felix 16:36:54 Topic: Minutes and Agenda review 16:37:17 Topic: Action Items 16:37:35 addison: forward date-time proposal to HTML WG 16:37:54 all: respond to Issue-88 survey on HTML-WG at http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/issue-88-objection-poll/ 16:38:21 Topic: Info Share 16:38:35 najib has joined #core 16:38:56 richard: program cmte "multilingual web" thing in Madrid 16:39:00 ... just decided dates 16:39:14 s/thing/event/ 16:39:22 ... 26th and 27th of October 16:39:29 ... surveying field of best practices 16:39:39 List of topic areas in the wiki at this point in the meeting: 16:39:39 Why & where it matters - Voice - Semantic Web - Social Web - W3C standards - Language resources - Content management and authoring tools - Language selection & navigation - MT - Localization standards & tools - TM databases - Text mining - Language technologies - Browser development - Usability and Design for i18n - Cultural aspects (from script support to cultural differences) - Web addresses (IDNs and IRIs) - Mobile Web - Cloud based issues - Crowd-sourcing - D 16:39:39 ... "The Multilingual Web: Where are we?" 16:39:54 ... and you are all welcome to come 16:40:17 ... and you could all (nudge nudge) give a talk 16:40:30 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-minutes.html aphillip 16:40:55 richard: will be a call for papers soon 16:44:19 Topic: and tags document approval 16:44:34 http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags.en.php 16:45:05 richard: please approve for wide-review 16:45:21 ... for publication in about a week 16:45:42 norbert: what does the HTML5 spec say 16:45:49 ... html4 has some handwaving there 16:46:11 ... but they all refer to some specific stylistic forms 16:46:19 ... are you trying to change standard practice? 16:46:32 richard: why are we not deprecating these discussion a few years ago 16:46:40 ... so we need to use them more sensibly 16:46:56 ... and ian (hixie) incorped comments 16:47:08 ... can't go away, but not necessarily presentational 16:47:29 Norbert: folks who use these really mean bold and italic 16:47:39 ... so trying to change them to using better markup 16:49:57 Addison: try saying that people use these things to mean bold and italic, but that is problematic for various reasons 16:50:37 ... if you use these tags in template documents that can make it more complicated when you localise 16:51:46 david: area of tweaking; make point about japanese, but even some western typefaces cannot be bolded or italicized as well 16:53:12 norbert: change to 16:53:20 ... and 'we don't use in English' 16:53:31 chair: all in favor of wide review? 16:53:56 addison: yes 16:54:00 norbert: yes 16:56:50 richard: should I use with class name for slug lines? 16:57:08 Topic: HTML Issue-88 16:57:11 najib has joined #core 16:57:19 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-minutes.html aphillip 16:58:37 richard: summarizes his discussion with html chairs 16:58:49 ... 1. the original change proposal is never mentioned 16:59:01 ... response was that not updated recently 16:59:12 ... and you have a different opinion now 16:59:22 ... but they included hixie's old proposal 16:59:36 richard: 2. they mentioned that i18n WG 16:59:42 ... has a different idea now 16:59:46 ... point to my idea 16:59:54 ... but its not a change proposal 17:00:06 ... so you can't point to it/can't criticize it 17:00:17 ... "too late for change proposals now" 17:01:00 ... 3. to the extent that we apply any numerical analysis... but they say they won't weigh votes, only technical arguments 17:01:12 richard: not sure what to do about concerns 17:01:20 ... need to express feelings in other proposals 17:01:35 ... join html wg or write to chairs 17:01:43 ... copy some lists if you write to chairs 17:04:02 addison: write to chairs and copy lists with respose of "mu"? 17:04:23 richard: options are: 17:04:50 ... 1. hixies proposal that there is no problem (meta can have only one value and changes meaning) 17:05:27 ... 2. hixie's propsal that makes content-language non-conforming in html5, removing possibility for validity 17:05:43 ... have this problem that it is a meta tag and should be available for that 17:06:21 ... 3. Leif's proposal is complicated but basically stay as currently but warn not to use in validator but do allow guessing if lang not available 17:06:50 ... I though it makes sense, but doesn't steer anyone in the right direction 17:07:23 richard: our last option was "don't guess default language from meta/http header" 17:07:30 ... otherwise all same as html4 17:08:04 najib has joined #core 17:10:37 definitely object to #1 17:10:52 +??P0 17:11:04 Zakim, ??P0 is fantasai 17:11:04 +fantasai; got it 17:11:59 endorse leif's proposal? 17:12:09 richard: possibly needs a couple of changes 17:12:43 fantasai: not valid not supported 17:13:00 ... but inoperative is okay 17:13:43 fantasai: okay with guessing or not guessing lang from c-l 17:14:59 So, 4. It's valid, but doesn't have any effect (is effectively ignored) 17:15:06 I'm okay with 3 or 4 17:15:08 not 1 or 2 17:15:51 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-minutes.html aphillip 17:17:28 position proposal for wg: support leif's proposal, with a preference that content-language be severed (rendered inoperable), but can live with it 17:25:46 chair: objections to this position? 17:28:31 ACTION: all: respond to issue-88 17:31:17 ACTION: addison: write Internationalization WG position response 17:31:28 Topic: AOB? 17:31:36 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-minutes.html aphillip 17:31:58 -David 17:31:59 -aphillip 17:32:01 -Norbert 17:32:04 -Richard 17:32:06 zakim, bye 17:32:06 leaving. As of this point the attendees were Richard, aphillip, +1.408.349.aaaa, Norbert, +44.141.888.aabb, David, fantasai 17:32:06 Zakim has left #core 17:32:09 rrsagent, bye 17:32:09 I see 2 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-actions.rdf : 17:32:09 ACTION: all: respond to issue-88 [1] 17:32:09 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-irc#T17-28-31 17:32:09 ACTION: addison: write Internationalization WG position response [2] 17:32:09 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/06/30-core-irc#T17-31-17