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Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #13 from Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> 2010-10-06 18:06:27 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > It seems to me that this doesn't need to be an attribute, just that the browser
> > > generates the direction metadata for any field for which the user has changed
> > > direction, without having the author having to opt-in to that behavior.
> >
> > That's not a good choice, because of possible cases like this:
> >
> > <input type="hidden" name="foo_dir" value="bar">
> > <input type="text" name="foo">
> >
> > This form will submit "foo_dir=bar" if the browser does not support this
> > proposal, but if it does and the user submits the form with the direction of
> > the second input changed, the form will submit "foo_dir=rtl" or "foo_dir=ltr".
>
> You could make the submitted metadata be something that the author cannot
> generate. (For instance, using HTTP headers.)
An interesting suggestion. Would anyone care to suggest a specific header and
syntax? Wouldn't the HTML spec have to include this to get interoperability?
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