Ruby clarification on specs

[r12a]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dpub-css-priorities-20150820/#ruby

issue 18 asks whether the spec is stable, but there are two specs for ruby support: the HTML5 spec, which handles the markup and for which browsers tend to provide basic positioning by default, and the CSS ruby spec, which provides fine control over the display. Issue 18 should make it clear that there are more than one spec involved.

for HTML, you can find information about implementation support at http://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/ruby-html

[r12a]

fwiw, there's also a new article available from i18n WG:

Ruby Markup https://www.w3.org/International/articles/ruby/markup

there's another in development

Ruby Styling (draft!) https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/ruby/styling.en

[xfq]

Here are more tests for ruby:

• https://www.w3.org/International/tests/#html5-ruby
• https://www.w3.org/International/tests/#css3-ruby
• https://w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/results/int-inline-notes-annotations

The most prominent issues are the lack of bopomofo ruby support, tabular markup support, and ruby alignment (and other styling) support. The relevant HTML and CSS standards are relatively mature, but some text is not clear enough or not interoperable, and some requirements in Chinese/Japanese are not written into the specs yet. I'm happy to contribute some text to this section if needed.

[himorin]

Note: W3C i18n WG closed our tracker that we've noticed target document of this issue no longer maintained, and is ok to close this issue. (please not remove i18n-needs-resolution label which is used by our bot and tracking system)