16:25-16:35 (10 min.)

What W3C is like

16:35-16:55 (20 min.)

Feedback from Tokyo Forum

16:55-17:05 (10 min.)

Next steps?

17:05-17:35 (30 min.)

Discussion

• An industry consortium works for Web technology standardization

  

• Specifications & guidelines for Web interoperability

3 research institutes collaboratively run W3C

US: MIT

Europe: ERCIM

Japan: Keio Univ.

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One Web!

• Open
• Global/Accessible
• Implementable

Me, you and all of us

Interoperable?

Input/Output of various devices

Multilingual?

Processing variety of languages

Multi-Modal?

Combination of various UI modalities

Accessible?

Needs of various users/cases

e-Publishing in the future:

Web technology, e.g., HTML and CSS, provides strong influence

Application of Web standards:

Let's start with actual "use cases" :)

Collecting Use Cases:

Asked e-Publishing stakeholders for use cases and requirements

Also:

Clarified the current situation and issues to solve

Main theme:

What is needed for Japanese text layout on Web browsers and e-Books?

Detail:

1. Each panelist introduced their own products and services
2. The process of their products and services
3. Needs of stakeholders: What do we want to do using Web technology?

ACCESS's opinion:

• EPUB(HTML+CSS) as platform for publishing
• The current latest specifications already let us use a certain level of e-pub documents with Japanese layout.
• However, there is no (free) stable implementation for the latest specs

Newphoria's opinion:

• (Very) Big fonts for advertizing etc.
• Restriction based on hardware: number of characters, resolution, display size, etc.
• Difficulty of Japanese text layout on a big display, e.g., concatenated multiple displays as a huge display

Sankei Digital's opinion:

• Generates a Web page including various text provided by costomers
• Very difficult to justify the starting point/ending point of characters in a line nicely
• Actual style depends on device resolutions...

Toppan's opinion:

• Generates various printed matters: magazines, novels, picture books, dictionaries
• Issues with quality of text layout and fonts.
• Really would like even more beautiful layout :)

• For further modification, it would be important to consider spacing (inter-character/inter-line).
• Also, Ruby for pairs of Kanji (Juku-go) is important.
• How to deal with text layout space is important.
• Stronger collaboration with SVG (as vector graphics for signage service) would be useful, e.g., SVG fonts, animation

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Contacts: Isshiki, Yoshizawa, Nakata, Ashimura

These slides are available at:
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0601-web-and-japanese-layout-ka/

Also a link to these slides is available on the Forum Web page at:
http://www.w3.org/Style/Japan-2011/Kyoto.htm