SiyaBasScript - CSE Symposium 2010 - Keheliya Gallaba

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SiyaBasScript

Keheliya Bandara Gallaba

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

29/4/2010

At CSE Symposium 2010


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Agenda

What is SiyaBasScript?Why I made it? The story

How I made it?

Demonstration

What it means to the World Wide Web

Q&A


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What is SiyaBasScript?

Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

Extension

for converting web sites with

non-Unicode Sinhala fonts to Unicode


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SiyaBasScript

The Story

Note: The characters in this story are purely

fictional. Any similarities between them and

real individuals are purely coincidental.


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SiyaBasScript

I'm John

and

I'm stubborn


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SiyaBasScript

I'm Johnand

I'm a web developer now

and I don't care about

Unicode


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Ends up with messages like...


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And gibberish like...


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The End


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How do they achieve this?

@font-face {

font-family: Wijeya;

font-style: normal;

font-weight: 700;

src: url(../../../02\WIJEYA1.prf);

}

@font-face {

font-family: IsiMalithi;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;src: url(ISIWMAL0.eot);}

@font-face {font-family: sandaru-n;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;src: url(SANDARU0.eot);

}


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Why is this bad?

Reason 1:

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets

...It is for styling, not to be misused in multilingual webpages


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You are lying to the browser...

Lie to me

...and it causes Font Proliferation


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Why is this bad?

Reason 2:

Incompatibility Issues

Web applications should be written for theweb

not browsers


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Why is this bad?

You can't restrict the reader to use a certain browser

Internet ExplorerEmbedded OpenType fonts only!!!

Mozilla FirefoxTrueType and OpenType fonts

only!!!

Safari (Webkit)TrueType and OpenType fonts

only!!!

OperaTrueType and OpenType fonts

only!!!


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Why is this bad?

Reason 3:

Knowledge Representation issues

...searching, sorting and text processing impossible


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Unicode?

The Unicode range for Sinhala is U+0D80U+0DFF.

THE Big table of characters...


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What does this lead to?

...Confusion


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How can SiyaBasScript fix this?

...by converting web sites with

non-Unicode Sinhala fonts to Unicode of course

Demonstration


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How is it doing that?

Detailed component architecture of Firefox


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SiyaBasScript Extension How it is all connected...


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SiyaBasScript Extension The Bigger Picture


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What does it mean to the World Wide Web?

SiyaBasScript allows quoting, referencing and sharing of

non-Unicode content via Unicode


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....takes away the restrictions on which browser to use

It makes all these sites work in IE, Firefox and Chrome...


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...and SiyaBasScript gives the freedom back to the user


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To download...

...head over to

http://code.google.com/p/siyabasscript

OR

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63613

You can find me on

twitter.com/keheliya

galpotha.wordpress.com


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Questions

You can find me on


galpotha.wordpress.com


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The End

You can find me on


galpotha wordpress com

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