W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

29 July 2021

Attendees

Present
addison, Atsushi, Bert, Felix, Fuqiao, JcK, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

<addison> trackbot, prepare teleconference

Agenda Review

Action Items

<addison> https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

addison: jump into action items, couple of documentation items

<addison> action-1031?

<trackbot> action-1031: Addison Phillips to Document the state of payment-request -- due 2021-06-03 -- OPEN

<addison> close action-1031

<trackbot> Closed action-1031.

addison: 1031 done while ago
… 1048 create to WebAuthn, get another email from Wendy, and will have a call next week

<addison> action-1049?

<trackbot> action-1049: Addison Phillips to Close open completed reviews -- due 2021-07-22 -- OPEN

<addison> close action-1049

<trackbot> Closed action-1049.

addison: 1049 I did

<addison> action-1050?

<trackbot> action-1050: Addison Phillips to Merge string-meta changes pending richard's review of the glossary changes -- due 2021-07-22 -- OPEN

r12a: 1050 want to raise review from group on proposed change

addison: added as agenda

<addison> action-1052?

<trackbot> action-1052: Richard Ishida to Investigate glossary linking solutions, e.g. marcos's -- due 2021-07-29 -- OPEN

r12a: 1052 investigation on going

Info Share

RADAR Review

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1

addison: no new incoming
… xfq done DOM, is there anything review there

xfq: I've took a look, and found any issue about the changes to the last review draft
… remaining two open issues

<xfq__> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3As%3Adom

xfq: seems not a blocker for release

addison: move to completed (no objection from attendee)
… will take an action to notify the WG

Action: addison: notify that DOM review completed with no new issues (outstanding issues remain open for future work)

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1054 - Notify that dom review completed with no new issues (outstanding issues remain open for future work) [on Addison Phillips - due 2021-08-05].

Localizable Manifests FPWD?

addison: we have a repo, in a position to add references
… a bit work to be done before publication on documents
… do we put this into /TR/ now?

<addison> move to publish localizable-manifest as FPWD

<addison> +1

<fsasaki> +1

+1

<xfq__> +1

<r12a> 0

<Bert> +1

<JcK> 0 -- I have no competence to have an opinion about this

r12a: haven't looked much, so 0

addison: it's just a FPWD

<addison> https://w3c.github.io/localizable-manifests/

Resolution: publish localizable-manifests as a first public working draft

r12a: that's why not -1 but 0

addison: who to take an action?
… I will

Action: addison: publish localizable-manifests as FPWD with help from richard

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1055 - Publish localizable-manifests as fpwd with help from richard [on Addison Phillips - due 2021-08-05].

<xfq__> https://github.com/w3c/localizable-manifests/issues/5

xfq: Several common approaches are currently listed in the document. Should we recommend one of them?

addison: there are several approaches on this,
… some recommendations could be here, but not as must
… PR and/or suggestions are welcome

paragraph direction in glossary

addison: let's jump into this quickly

<addison> https://aphillips.github.io/string-meta/#dfn-paragraph-direction

addison: after discussion, we've learned on dir for paragraph or block of text

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-glossary/pull/5/files

addison: PR raised to move some text into glossary, for proposed definition

geolocation

Action: richard to publish the paragraph direction definition

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1056 - Publish the paragraph direction definition [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-08-05].

<xfq__> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/941

xfq: we have one open tracker issue, on error message

<xfq__> https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-api/issues/50

xfq: Marcos has closed WG issue, and also filed into WebIDL issue
… I'd want to ask whether it is ok to close tracker issue on geolocation, as CR-blocker

addison: what's the current text?

<xfq__> https://w3c.github.io/geolocation-api/#position_error_interface

xfq: this subsection, added note as don't show this message to user interface etc.

<r12a> seems ok to me

<r12a> basically, this is debugging comments

+1

<addison> https://w3c.github.io/geolocation-api/#message-attribute

addison: don't think any additional is needed
… also WebIDL might be fixed near future

Resolution: close the issue

Updates to HTML/CSS techniques and an article

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html

r12a: changed styling last week, introduced selecter

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html#liststyle

r12a: this link points to styling counter part
… link to article in MDN, and they link back to our counter-style collection

<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/techniques/authoring-html.en#liststyle

r12a: links to MDN can introduce readers on how-to documents, and no need to be included into here

addison: looks good to me

felix: listing do-s, but not don't-s?

r12a: by default no don't-s, but if there is any preference...

jck: consistency is more important

<r12a> https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/7295

r12a: sounds like no strong push back, go as is

<r12a> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align

r12a: another point is text-align start/end value
… how these work on left alignment and right alignment et.c

bert: majority of people use no more than two language, and use left/right in existing ones

r12a: most of people who don't use start/end, on porting into another language they will get issues
… also I have never feel difficult to understand other logical properties
… like for vertical writing, logical could work automatically
… could happen something like translated contents

bert: two issues, want to tell left as left, I don't feel most of people need to use these

r12a: considering translator, using left and right have context and it could lead difficulty to handle text

jck: that should be a mixed problem

r12a: you also need to think about page layout, in arabic book or vertical book

addison: for Bert's point, if you are preparing a page for specific language, using left/right could be an issue on usability
… for my task, using in another language, left vs start could have some harm
… in general, super agreement on logical keyword should be used
… another hand, most developer's reaction could be using left is easily understandable

r12a: we are about to offer advice, if they don't want follow it should be fine
… personally I feel writing an advice is helpful

r12a: CSS writing techniques document is different from spec

Action: Richard to add more information about using left/right as well as start/end

addison: first, any action item we need to take on this topic?

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1057 - Add more information about using left/right as well as start/end [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-08-05].

"Awaiting Comment Resolution" reviews

addison: number of items here, I've proposed to close

<addison> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2021Jul/0032.html

addison: in the list in agenda email

addison: more time to review these?
… next week to start with these by working through?

r12a: +1

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. addison: notify that DOM review completed with no new issues (outstanding issues remain open for future work)
  2. addison: publish localizable-manifests as FPWD with help from richard
  3. richard to publish the paragraph direction definition
  4. Richard to add more information about using left/right as well as start/end

Summary of resolutions

  1. publish localizable-manifests as a first public working draft
  2. close the issue
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