Re: per-paragraph auto-direction, a.k.a. dir=uba

Yet another possibility is to forego <plaintext>, but specify that dir=uba
only works in the per-paragraph mode when the element does not have any
children that are elements (i.e. it congtains no mark-up). Otherwise, it
falls back to first-strong (i.e. gives all its UBA paragraphs the same
direction). I am pretty sure that this would be quite simple to implement,
but have no idea if such a definition would fly in a spec.

BTW, script can display some plain text in a <pre> (with or without dir=uba)
using the textContent property (except in IE, where one has to use
innerText...).

Aharon


On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin
<aharon@google.com>wrote:

> So, should I include the <plaintext> version of dir=uba in the next draft
> of the proposal?
>
> Aharon
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <
> aharon@google.com> wrote:
>
>> They would be quite different. <textarea readonly>:
>>
>>    - is an inline element
>>    - has size controlled by rows and cols attribute; in some browsers,
>>    can be resized by the user
>>    - is submitted with form
>>    - receives focus and appears in taborder
>>    - has a border
>>
>> On the other hand, <pre>:
>>
>>    - is a block element
>>    - sized the same way as a div, e.g. can be minimal size needed to
>>    display content.
>>    - is not submitted with forms
>>    - does not receive focus or appear in taborder
>>    - does not have a built-in border
>>
>> In all these respects, I would want the new element to be like <pre>,
>> since it is meant for the display of (pre-formatted plain-text) data. The
>> only way it is similar to <textarea> is that it does not allow mark-up and
>> has a modifiable value property.
>>
>> Aharon
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin
>>> <aharon@google.com> wrote:
>>> > <textarea> allows user input, has the look and feel of an input (e.g.
>>> the
>>> > border around it), and serves as a field in a form.
>>> >
>>> > The new element is for display only, like <pre>.
>>>
>>> But textarea's already support all of the features that you have in
>>> mind.  Example:
>>>
>>> data:text/html,<textarea readonly
>>>
>>> style="border:none;overflow:none;resize:none">foo&#10;bar&#10;baz</textarea>
>>>
>>> I don't think that we should add a new HTML element, unless there's a
>>> compelling reason to do so.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ehsan
>>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>>
>>
>>
>