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Towards the Promised Land: Globalization Developments in Web Standards

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Date:: 4 June 2012, 00:00–00:00 Coordinated Universal Time
Location:: Paris, France
Speakers:: Richard Ishida and Addison Phillips
Website:: Localization World, Paris

A new era of competition between the major browsers has rekindled work on the HTML and CSS standards. One of the results has been a renewed focus on providing features to support international content in new and exciting ways, from typeset quality presentation to vertical text; from East Asian support such as ruby and emphasis to improved bidirectional language support. In this presentation we'll explore the changes that are available today, the status of these standards and the challenges that remain.