IMUG - The International Multilingual User Group

Towards the Promised Land: Developments in Internationalization @ W3C

February 21 · 7:00 PM
Google

IMUG maps and directions: http://www.imug.org/google/benghazi.html (No webcast, but we hope to record this and post it to YouTube.)

The W3C is alive with new standards activity of interest to Web globalizers. From HTML5 to CSS3, from JavaScript to Unicode bidi, support for creating international content and Web-based applications is evolving quickly. In this presentation we'll explore the changes that are available today, the status of these standards, and the challenges that remain.

Addison Phillips is the globalization architect at Lab126 (creator of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and Kindle Fire tablet). He is currently the chair of the W3C Internationalization Core Working Group.

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tex

Addison gave an excellent presentation surveying the recent advances in internationalization standards relevant to the Web, not just those of the W3C, but related ones as well. It is good to see the progress that has been made and the attention to high quality publishing and especially the attempt to meet vertical and RTL requirements of the languages of Asian and the Middle east. Well done Addison!

2 · February 22
IMUG

Here are Addison's slides and demo links: http://ow.ly/hXuzv

Also Kat Momoi has shared these links to the Google open source libraries he mentioned during Q&A: phone numbers http://ow.ly/hXxv0 and Android address input widget http://ow.ly/hXxyV

Feel free to post other relevant links here.

---Joe

0 · February 22
Ultan

Great to be back at IMUG. 15th year of attending great meetings, learning, and sharing good stuff with people I like.

0 · February 21
Jose Palomares

Swamped with work, I will have to wait for another train to the promised land.

0 · February 21
Shengping Jiang

The topic is very good. Thank IMUG for arranging this meeting.

0 · February 12
IMUG

Hi folks,

No public webcast, but if all goes well the Google TechTalks team will post a recording to YouTube within a week or two after the event.

Google employees inside their network can join us remotely and ask questions in real time.

If and when it's on YouTube, I will post the link here and in our regular emails, tweets, and posts.

---Joe

0 · February 7
- Martin Wunderlich
  
  Good news, thanks a lot, Joe.
  
  0 · February 7
Martin Wunderlich

Is there something like a recorded stream of this event? Would love to join, but location-wise and timezone-wise it's not possible, unfortunately (being based in Munich).

0 · February 7
- Jose Palomares
  
  Come on, Martin, don't be so picky. There's a ton of direct flights from Munich! ;-)
  
  0 · February 7
- Martin Wunderlich
  
  Is this an invitation to pay for my flight, Jose? :)
  
  0 · February 7
Oleksandr Pysaryuk

I will attend webcast if available.

0 · February 5
Bev Corwin

Remote attendance please!

0 · January 29