Aoyama Gakuin University - College of Science and Engineering - Dept. of Integrated Information Technology - Software Lab

Bidi Source Editing Prototype

Overview and Links

Editing HTML or XML source that contains bidirectional (Arabic/Hebrew) text is difficult.

Testing Prototype (Web form): Please try it out and provide feedback and comments!

Paper: Exploring Better Source Editing for Bidirectional XHTML and XML

Slides: Exploring Better Source Editing for Bidirectional XHTML and XML

Documentation for Testing Prototype

Our Testing Prototype is a simple Web form that allows you to try out how HTML or XML source code is displayed using our research results, and to provide feedback for further improvement. It should be possible to use the prototype without much instruction, but below is a short description of each available option.

Your feedback will be most valuable if it answers one or more of the following questions:

• Have you viewed or edited bidi HTML or XML previously? What was your experience?
• Does the display in the Result area look useful? Better than other things you have seen?
• Which options are useful, and which are unnecessary?
• Which options currently not provided would be useful?
• What kinds of documents are you viewing or editing (percentage of right-to-left and left-to-right text, use of Arabic or Hebrew element and attribute names)?
• How could we improve the Web form to make testing even easier?
• Which tools would you like better bidi source editing to be available?

Options

Privacy

This option allows you to indicate how you would like us to treat the source code that you submit for testing. The meaning of the options is as follows:

throw-away

We will not store the source you have submitted in any form.

internal use

We will use the source for internal analysis (maybe together with your feedback), but will not use it in publications.

publishing okay

You give us permission to use your example in publications.

We will always store your feedback because otherwise, it wouldn't be feedback. Also, our server always stores log data for statistical analysis and server tuning.

Description for other options to follow.

Martin J. Dürst, 2005/09/08