Re: [html-bidi] Feedback on Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:53 PM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>> From: ehsan@mozilla.com
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:43:17 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [html-bidi] Feedback on Additional Requirements for Bidi in
>> HTML
>> To: cewcathar@hotmail.com
>> CC: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
>>
>> It's not about secrets! If HTML specifies a default algorithm, all
>> browsers will be using that
> From what I gather, from your discussion with Vladmir and
> Fantasai, word-count should not be the default algorithm
> because it costs a lot of processing -- but if it were set to be the default
> algorithm,
> instead of first strong,
> in your opinion, would all browsers/users/developers then be using
> word-count as the algorithm of first choice?

I think this issue is mostly moot now.  See the proposal for
auto[0-9]+.  I think that's a much better way to expose this to
authors, with best of both worlds.

--
Ehsan
<http://ehsanakhgari.org/>

Received on Friday, 19 March 2010 01:36:24 UTC