Re: [css3-writing-modes] direction vs. writing mode in markup vs. style

On 10/25/2010 05:59 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:11 AM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>  wrote:
>
>>    (The 'direction' property does not actually belong in CSS: it exists
>>    in CSS in order to allow the HTML 'dir' attribute's functionality
>>    for raw XML documents. This use case probably should have been
>>    addressed with an xml:dir attribute rather than with CSS.)
>
> Hmm.  Do you want the XML Core WG to take up the idea?  We own the
> xml: namespace, and we aren't that busy these days.

That sounds like a good idea to me, although I'd probably check with
the i18nwg just to make sure they like the idea. :)

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 25 October 2010 22:13:48 UTC