The W3C i18n WG did discuss this with Hixie but took an action to look into things in more detail. See https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10830#c59 https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10830#c75
Just after meeting with Hixie we put out a document that began looking at ruby use cases and discussing how the various markup models apply to each. After several iterations and a lot of discussion, we have just published the final version of that document as a WG Note, see http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby-use-cases/. We tried to make the HTML5 approach work for the use cases we knew to be needed, but the upshot is that in the end the extension specification at http://darobin.github.io /html-ruby/ seems to us the best approach. Earlier this year we had a workshop about internationalization and ebooks, and ruby and vertical text were ranked by attendees as two most urgent requirements needing support for their markets. After the workshop, we had expressions of interest to implement the extension spec from Google and Safari teams. We also spoke with Microsoft, who expressed interest. The CSS Ruby module spec was recently republished (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ruby/) with changes that were designed collaboratively with the approach in the ruby extension spec. The processing and terminology are aligned so the semantics and styling match up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114441 Title: Gecko Engine does not support the XHTML 1.1 ruby tag Status in Epiphany Browser: Unknown Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: In Progress Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: epiphany-browser Visit a website such as http://icculus.org/~mongoose/index-jp2.html -- notice Ruby tags are ignored. This works in IE and can work with a plugin in firefox ( http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_rubysupport.html.en ). Ruby is part of the XHTML 1.1 standard. http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/ ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun May 13 11:42:29 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany Package: epiphany-browser 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/epiphany ProcCwd: /home/mongoose ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: epiphany-browser Uname: Linux namie 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Thu Apr 12 22:25:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/epiphany-browser/+bug/114441/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

