Re: [sword-devel] New to the List

[YTang0648]

ok, since I am also new to the list. Let me say something about myself.

My name is Frank Yung-Fong Tang. I usually use email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I work for Netscape (and now part of AOL Time Waner) since Sept 1995. Before that I work for Apple Computer (1992-1995), and Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, ROC (1989-1991), Chinese Army (1987-1989).

My skills is in Internationalization. I work in this field for 14 years. I had managed the "Text and Internationalization Engineering Group" for Netscape Client developement from May 2000 till last Dec. Now I am back to Principal software Engineer role. In my employement with Netscape, I first build the Netscape 1.1i installer for Macintosh Japanese/French/German version. In Netscape 2.0 time frame I work on internationalization features in Mail and News and ensure the Mac version work for Chinese/Korean/Japanese. I planed the Netscape UTF-8 support and roadmap when I work on the 2.0 version. In Netscape 3.0 time frame, I change the Mac/Window/Motif Java AWT to display Chinese/Japanese/Korean Unicdoe charand make sure it work properly to access data from HTML and display in Canvas as well as widget. In Netscape 4.0 time I mainly working on international IMAP4 and NNTP support. I toke over the Window Unicode display code from the other window intl engineer. I also help the developement of WebFont on Window platform. In the Gecko/Mozilla developement, I start as the technical lead for Internationalization features. I personally designed/implemented the Unicode display code on Mac by using QuickDraw and ATSUI when ATSUI is still in very bad shape. I wrote most of the Unicode converters in Gecko. I wrote the Line breaker and Word breaker for Gecko. I arched the charset detector for Gecko. I intergrated the META charset observer and charset detector to Gecko's parser. I wrote most of the new CSS2 "list-style-type" functions for Gecko I wrote the case conversion code for Gecko and intergrate it into the CSS text-transform code in layout. I toke over the Asian Input Method support work (Mac and Windows) from another engineer and change the prototype to product.  I also kick off many collabration projects for Mozilla/Gecko, including ask Sun Micro to work on Linux version's Input Method support, printing support, ask Intel to enhance Chinese converters, ask individual contributor to add Armenian, Georgian, HongKong charset supports. Ask IBM to work on Bidi Support, etc.

When I work on Netscape 2.0 way back in late 1995, I also wrote a perl version of Chinese Bible tool (currently http://people.netscape.com/ftang/BIBLE ) I can claim this is the first Chinese Bible tool on internet because this is THE test cases Netscape use to test Chinese support before we ship our first version which support Chinese (Netscape 2.0). It probably is also the first Internet Bible tool since it is also used to test the FRAMESET support before we ship Netscaep 2.0. I won't claim it is the first ever Bible tool on Internet.

Before joined Netscape, I work for Apple. I work on the Unicode converter during 1995. That project later became the Text Encoding Converter.

When I work for III in Taiwan. I edited the "UNIX SVR4 Localization Guideline" for UNIX International. I work on a Chinese version of UNIX SVR4 project. I added the input method support to it and later on port the SVR3.2 Chinese console code to SVR4 code base.

I write C/C++/_javascript_ pretty well. Know Window/Linux/MacOS API pretty wel on the text (display, input) area.
I wrote Java, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, Pascal, Forth, FORTRAN, DBII, ASM before, but my knowledge about them are obsoleted.

I can write simple Perl code. Good enough to write powerful CGI but don't know how to access database from it or use modules. My knowledge about GTK/GDK/FreeType/Pango/Cocoa/Objective-C/Objective-C++ is very limited.
I have not learned C#, php, QT yet.

A lot of my paper could be found at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/paper/
Some of the old information I collected can be found at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/paper/i18n.html
Some of the test cases I wrote for different international support could be found at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/testscript/

I closed 827 Mozilla bugs as today. Some are fixed some are invalid or workforme.

Want to wrap up project SILA- see http://sila.mozdev.org
also want to see more Bible web site on different languages use the cutting edge web technology.

Not happy with those people who use old version of browsers because they don't use the new code I wrote. :) Come on! upgrade it, it is FREE!!! .... :)