[Bug 10808] text with unknown direction gets corrupted when inserted in content with opposite direction

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10808

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|i18n comment 2 : new dir    |text with unknown direction
                   |attribute value: auto, and  |gets corrupted when
                   |a new attribute:            |inserted in content with
                   |autodirmethod               |opposite direction
  Status Whiteboard|                            |use cases in comment 20

--- Comment #26 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-11-02 23:21:04 UTC ---
Comment 20 is very helpful, thanks. That's what bugs should be. :-)

Based on this, I agree that dir=auto is a good solution.

Is CSS is going to be changed so that instead of dir=rtl/dir=ltr/dir=auto
mapping straight to direction:ltr/direction:rtl/direction:auto we have them map
as follows:

   :ltr { direction: ltr; }
   :rtl { direction: rtl; }

...with dir=rtl, =ltr, and =auto setting some logical flag in the markup? If
so, I can spec the HTML side of that.

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Received on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 23:21:08 UTC