[Bug 10808] i18n comment 2 : new dir attribute value: auto, and a new attribute: autodirmethod

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10808

Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] <ehsan@mozilla.com> 2010-10-06 02:05:23 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Could you give some examples of real world pages that are suffering due to the
> lack of this feature in current browsers?

There are a lot of such samples.  One example is the Persian/Arabic/Hebrew
version of addons.mozilla.org <https://addons.mozilla.org/fa/>.  In this web
site, we display localized text (which is RTL) along with the non-localized
text coming from add-on authors, such as an add-on's name and description.

Another more extreme example is non-RTL languages on the same website, when
displaying the information about an add-on which only has its information in an
RTL language.

This problem may be the single most annoying problem that multi-langugage
websites have to struggle with today.  Basically, any website which gets some
of the information that it displays from direct user input is affected by this.
 Other very prominent websites include multi-language weblogs,
non-multi-language websites which display comments from users, and web mail
applications.

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Received on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:05:27 UTC