Re: 3.8 <input type="text"> and <textarea> should support interoperable "set direction" functionality -- just a quick question (Was: RE: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML)"

Re passwords, since those display as just a bunch of circles, I doubt that
the user would care very much whether they are displayed LTR or RTL :-)

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:54 AM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, Aharon, all; sorry I am still slowly responding to/the online status
> document (but am nearly fihished):
>
> > 3.8 <input type="text"> and <textarea> should support interoperable "set
> direction"
> > functionality
> > Bug 10821 filed on HTML5.
> > Proposes specifying that when the user agent user interface allows the
> user to set the direction
> > of <input> and <textarea> elements, it will set the element's dir
> attribute value accordingly
> > and trigger the oninput event after the dir attribute has been set.
> > HTML5 changed as proposed. In fact, the change includes that the user
> agent “should allow the
> > user to change the writing direction of the element”. However, the change
> is only applied to
> > inputs of type “text” and “search”.
> > Close the bug?
> ME:  Perhaps close this bug then; on what other inputs would you have this
> change apply?
> Passwords?  Perhaps it should apply to those.  Certainly not to selection
> inputs (checkboxes, radio boxes) I assume.
>
> (I am sorry to ask this but -- I have not dealt with other inputs myself;
> hopefully this is my last question; in any case thanks for the online status
> document with links to the bugs filed)
>
> Best,
>
> --C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> > From: aharon@google.com
> > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:30:30 -0800
> > To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
> > Subject: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in
> HTML"
> >
> > Here is an implementation status
> > document summarizing
> > the status of each proposal. I will continue to update it as the status
> > continues to change.
> >
> > If some part of the status is not to your liking, you are most welcome
> > to contribute to the discussion on the various bugs and threads linked
> > by the document while it is still possible to change things. Or, if you
> > can try to get a consensus here on public-i18n-bidi first.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aharon