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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10809 --- Comment #23 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2010-10-19 16:30:28 UTC --- I observe that 1) This feature is only useful if the application is willing to do significant work to opt in. Using it is not trivial if the information is submitted as a separate piece of info -- you'd have to track that extra info and store it out-of-band somehow, which would be very intrusive. 2) If bug 10821 is fixed, so that JavaScript can reliably tell what the direction of the input is (even accounting for the user manually switching the direction), then this feature could be emulated by JavaScript. This wouldn't take much more work than adapting an application that uses the feature to begin with -- the JavaScript to submit the info (either as invisible characters or out-of-band) is trivial. I therefore suggest that bug 10821 is fixed in some way, so that direction detection can be done from JavaScript. If it turns out that authors use it commonly and consistently enough to warrant a non-scripted method to do this, we can consider that then. In particular, we'll be able to tell empirically whether authors would prefer automatic insertion of control characters, or some out-of-band data, or if they don't use the feature at all. (Although directionality control characters are normally evil, I suspect they're actually the lesser evil here. Storing the direction out-of-band would be much more complicated.) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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