- From: Michael Smith via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:46:24 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/spec
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv20533
Modified Files:
history.html spec.html
Log Message:
Add a note about why you would persist dir='' in history traversal. (whatwg r6339)
[updated by splitter]
Index: history.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/history.html,v
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+++ history.html 29 Jul 2011 23:46:21 -0000 1.1060
@@ -406,7 +406,12 @@
history by that document.</p><p><dfn id="an-entry-with-persisted-user-state">An entry with persisted user state</dfn> is one that also
has user-agent defined state. This specification does not specify
what kind of state can be stored.</p><p class="example">For example, some user agents might want to
- persist the scroll position, or the values of form controls.</p><p>Entries that consist of <a href="#state-object" title="state object">state
+ persist the scroll position, or the values of form controls.</p><p class="note">User agents that persist the value of form controls
+ are encouraged to also persist their directionality (the value of
+ the element's <code title="attr-dir"><a href="elements.html#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute). This
+ prevents values from being displayed incorrectly after a history
+ traversal when the user had originally entered the values with an
+ explicit, non-default directionality.</p><p>Entries that consist of <a href="#state-object" title="state object">state
objects</a> share the same <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> as the entry for
the page that was active when they were added.</p><p>Contiguous entries that differ just by fragment identifier also
share the same <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code>.</p><p class="note">All entries that share the same
Index: spec.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/spec.html,v
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@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
<a href="Overview.html">single page HTML</a>,
<a href="spec.html">multipage HTML</a>,
<a href="author/">web developer edition</a>.
-This is revision 1.5066.
+This is revision 1.5067.
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