WEBVTT slide-1 00:00.000 --> 00:09.800 Good afternoon. Today we are here to mark a significant moment of the W3C's internationalization 00:09.800 --> 00:18.560 work. We want to take this opportunity to honor a pillar of the W3C, Addison Phillips, who 00:18.560 --> 00:24.920 is stepping down as chair of the internationalization working group after more than two decades 00:24.920 --> 00:33.080 of service. At the same time, we are pleased to welcome Joel Sahleen as the new chair. It 00:33.080 --> 00:39.600 is a great pity that neither Addison nor Joel is able to join us in person at TPAC this 00:39.600 --> 00:47.480 year, but we are excited to carry the work forward. So this presentation is a tribute 00:47.480 --> 00:54.640 to Addison's legacy and a call to action to support the ongoing mission of making 00:54.640 --> 00:57.000 the web truly global. slide-2 00:57.000 --> 01:04.080 So for more than two decades, Addison has been creating a web 01:04.080 --> 01:09.880 that works for everyone, regardless of their language, their script, or their 01:09.880 --> 01:17.080 culture. This work doesn't happen by accident. It requires a constant and 01:17.520 --> 01:25.480 passionate advocate. It's about ensuring a user in Tokyo, in Nairobi, in Buenos Aires, 01:25.480 --> 01:32.040 has a first-class experience that the web feels as natural and intuitive to them as 01:32.040 --> 01:39.360 it does to someone in Silicon Valley. So Addison has been that champion as chair of 01:39.360 --> 01:43.840 the Internationalization working group. He has been the guiding force, ensuring 01:43.920 --> 01:52.280 that the principles of I18N were woven into the very fabric of our standards. He has 01:52.280 --> 01:59.960 served as chair of the Internationalization working group since 2005. At that time, the 01:59.960 --> 02:07.080 web was a vastly different place. Internet Explorer 6 was still a dominant force. The 02:07.080 --> 02:14.080 iPhone hadn't been released, AJAX was the hot new thing. Throughout the shift in our 02:14.080 --> 02:21.400 industry over the past two decades, Addison has been a constant, steady hand at the 02:21.400 --> 02:26.800 helm of internationalization. He's quite possibly the longest serving chair of 02:26.800 --> 02:30.673 any working group in W3C history. slide-3 02:30.673 --> 02:35.320 So Addison's contributions go far beyond his 02:35.360 --> 02:44.360 role as chair. As many of you are familiar with IETF BCP 47, for those who aren't, it 02:44.360 --> 02:49.840 is the foundational standard for defining language tags on the internet. Every time 02:49.840 --> 02:54.920 your browser sends an accept language header, every time an HTML document 02:54.920 --> 03:01.760 declares a language, that is BCP 47 at work. Addison was a key contributor and 03:01.800 --> 03:07.560 co-author of this important spec. Furthermore, his work on documents like 03:07.800 --> 03:13.760 Internationalization Best Practices For Spec Developers has had a lot of impact. 03:14.840 --> 03:20.760 This document guides all of us on how to think about internationalization from day 03:20.760 --> 03:27.280 one, not as an afterthought. His fingerprints are under the very process of 03:27.280 --> 03:29.767 how we create standards. slide-4 03:29.767 --> 03:36.400 And a little bit of our working group. We ensure that W3C 03:36.400 --> 03:42.280 technologies work globally. Our work is divided into three parts. Language 03:42.280 --> 03:50.600 enablement is about collecting requirements, document gaps of languages, 03:50.600 --> 03:55.600 scripts and writing systems around the world. And developer support is 03:55.600 --> 04:03.000 about reviewing specifications, about documenting best practices. We also have 04:03.000 --> 04:09.760 a lot of special projects about some specific topics. And we have a lot of 04:09.800 --> 04:15.320 educational resources. We have articles, videos, techniques for web 04:15.320 --> 04:17.150 developers and stuff. slide-5 04:17.150 --> 04:22.640 And I want to share a few recent updates to give you a 04:22.640 --> 04:29.840 sense of our current focus. We maintain a type samples repository. We have, to help 04:29.840 --> 04:36.360 developers and designers understand the intricacies of global typography, we have 04:36.360 --> 04:42.200 expanded our type samples repository. Our repository provides visual examples 04:42.200 --> 04:46.760 from a multitude of scripts, helping working group discussions make informed 04:46.760 --> 04:52.760 choices. Our task forces have been diligently working to solve complex 04:52.760 --> 04:57.480 layout challenges. For example, our Chinese layout requirements. We are tackling 04:57.480 --> 05:04.080 issues like the proper rendering of multilevel counters, which is critical 05:04.080 --> 05:11.240 for high quality reading experience for over a billion users. To ensure that 05:11.280 --> 05:15.880 implementers implement these features correctly, we are continuously adding 05:15.880 --> 05:21.480 tests to our test suite. This year, we have been adding tests for a few scripts, 05:21.520 --> 05:27.760 like Chinese, Tibetan and others. And finally, education outreach remained 05:27.760 --> 05:34.160 important. We have published a few articles. We have expanded our translated 05:34.160 --> 05:41.040 articles to reach a wider audience. We have created, we have been creating 05:41.120 --> 05:46.190 a few more videos to our YouTube channel. slide-6 05:46.190 --> 05:50.480 And internationalization is a 05:50.480 --> 05:58.720 continuous and collaborative effort. It is never done. It's something that 05:59.240 --> 06:05.720 with new APIs, new CSS features, new paradigms like AI API, new internationalization 06:05.720 --> 06:10.720 challenges emerge right alongside them. So internationalization is not 06:10.720 --> 06:15.520 someone else's problem. It is a shared responsibility for everyone in this 06:15.520 --> 06:18.755 room who is building the future of the web. slide-7 06:18.755 --> 06:21.720 So join the Internationalization 06:21.720 --> 06:29.520 working group. There are many ways to contribute. We have, you can help us 06:29.520 --> 06:34.040 review standards. You don't need to be a linguist or a typography expert, 06:34.040 --> 06:38.080 but we welcome them. We need web developers. We need browser 06:38.120 --> 06:46.240 implementers. We need spec editors who can help us analyze specifications, 06:46.240 --> 06:51.160 new technologies from a global perspective. You can contribute to our 06:51.160 --> 06:56.880 resources. If you don't need to… if you don't have time to join our weekly 06:56.880 --> 07:01.840 meetings, you can still make a huge impact, help us write an article, 07:01.880 --> 07:06.360 translate a tutorial into your native language, or submit a test case for 07:06.360 --> 07:11.629 features you care about. So every contribution matters. slide-8 07:11.629 --> 07:12.800 So I want to 07:12.800 --> 07:16.880 bring back to where we started. We extend our deepest gratitude to 07:16.880 --> 07:20.960 Addison Phillips. He built an incredible foundation for World Wide Web. 07:21.600 --> 07:27.360 And let's offer our full support for our new chair, Joel Sahleen, as he 07:27.360 --> 07:35.400 leads us into this next chapter. And let's build a real World Wide Web. 07:35.400 --> 07:35.920 Thank you.