Ruby is a W3C recommendation markup for inline annotation of text, often to provide pronunciation hints or other annotation above or below the main text. It is especially useful for rendering Ruby characters. It is part of XHTML 1.1. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... Ruby characters are small, annotative characters that can be placed above or to the side of a character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax. ...
See also
Ruby Ruby Annotation. A W3C recommendation (31 May2001). May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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XHTML Ruby Support, an extension for the Firefox browser. Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ...