Information

DOM Localization
  • Past
  • Confirmed
  • Breakout Sessions

Meeting

Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Confirmed
Location:
Floor 3 - 303
Participants:
Eemeli Aro, Bert Bos, Tantek Çelik, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Jasper Hugo, Michael Jackson, Leo Lee, Andy Luhrs, Atsushi Shimono
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

Users of the web are best served by being able to experience it in their native languages. Currently, localization of web content is achieved with a multitude of custom solutions, most of which are unable to express the full depth and breadth of human expressions in all languages. Introducing an easy-to-use but powerful standard localization solution would improve the experience of all users, in particular the vast majority who do not speak English natively.

This session is a continuation of the 2023 breakout session. Since then, the Unicode MessageFormat standard has been published as a part of Unicode Technical Standard #35 and the DOM Localization explainer has been updated. It has also become clear that a web-compatible file format for localization resources needs to be identified as a part of the work towards DOM localization, or a new file format needs to be specified.

Agenda

Chairs:
Eemeli Aro

Description:
Users of the web are best served by being able to experience it in their native languages. Currently, localization of web content is achieved with a multitude of custom solutions, most of which are unable to express the full depth and breadth of human expressions in all languages. Introducing an easy-to-use but powerful standard localization solution would improve the experience of all users, in particular the vast majority who do not speak English natively.

This session is a continuation of the 2023 breakout session. Since then, the Unicode MessageFormat standard has been published as a part of Unicode Technical Standard #35 and the DOM Localization explainer has been updated. It has also become clear that a web-compatible file format for localization resources needs to be identified as a part of the work towards DOM localization, or a new file format needs to be specified.

Goal(s):
Collect comments on the proposal and recruit interests to work on the standard.

Agenda:
Introductory slides

Big Questions

  1. Should we work on introducing localization as a capability of the web platform?
  2. Is the Internationalization WG an appropriate forum for standardizing the message resource file format?
  3. How specific to localization should the HTML capabilities be?

Materials:

Minutes

 Read minutes

Export options

Personal Links

Please log in to export this event with all the information you have access to.

Public Links

The following links do not contain any sensitive information and can be shared publicly.

Feedback

Report feedback and issues on GitHub.