[Bug 10811] i18n comment 6 : U+2028 and U+2029 in dialog text

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10811

Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> 2010-10-06 21:18:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Currently HTML doesn't specify anything about how the text shown in dialogs
> > (such as via alert()). It would be odd to have only this one requirement.
> 
> That's true, but why is it sufficient reason to exclude this from the HTML5
> specification?
> 
> > If HTML does specify anything about how the text in a dialog is rendered, it
> > would probably be best to defer to CSS.
> 
> I find this argument weak, as there is currently no way for CSS to affect how
> context in such dialogs is rendered.

Also, this is not at all a good match for CSS. Bidi ordering is not just a
matter of presentation. Although CSS has bidi properties like direction and
unicode-bidi, these are only properly used to implement HTML mark-up (dir
attribute, bdo element). For documents, the recommendation is to use HTML
mark-up, not them. See
<http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/#ri20030728.092130948>.

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Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 21:18:09 UTC