On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Keean Schupke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 29 April 2011, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Pablo Castro >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> We've had quite a bit of debate on this but I don't think we've reached >>> closure. At this point I would be fine with either one of a) postpone to v2 >>> and agree that for now we'll just do binary collation everywhere or b) the >>> last form of the proposal sent around: extra "collation" argument >>> (following BCP47 plus whatever the UA wants to allow) in >>> createObjectStore/createIndex, plus a collation property to interrogate it; >>> no way to change the collation of a store/index once created. >>> >>> Given that this turned out to be a more elaborate topic than I had >>> originally expected and that it doesn't seem to have a lot of traction >>> right now, my preference would be to postpone to v2. Thoughts? Once we make >>> a call I'll make sure the spec reflects it. >> >> I'd be fine with postponing it. However I don't think that the counter >> proposals that we've received will work, so I don't think that there >> is a reason to postpone. >> >> / Jonas >> >> > > As long as we have a binary mode I am happy. If it is to support other > collations, then all browsers must support the same set of options. > The question then becomes what set of collation modes to standardise > on? Allowing non standard collations will result in apps that will > only run correctly on one browser, and that does not seem a good idea > to me.
I agree that we will eventually want to standardize the set of allowed collations. Similarly to how we'll want to standardize on one set of charset encodings supported. However I don't think we, in this spec community, have enough experience to come up with a good such set. So it's something that I think we should postpone for now. As I understand it there is work going on in this area in other groups, so hopefully we can lean on that work eventually. Of course, we still do need to have a standardized vocabulary for the collations though. / Jonas
