Re: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML" ("dir" & "directory")

But dir is already part of HTML (as previously raised).

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Ehsan
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin
<aharon@google.com>wrote:

> Because dir was the command for getting a directory listing in VMS and
> MS-DOS, among others, and because English is the language used as the lingua
> franca (:-) of computing - witness this thread.
>
> Aharon
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> CE Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Aharon, I just scanned to 2.3:
>>>
>>>
>>>> "2.3 Support reporting the chosen direction of  and in form submissions.
>>>>    "HTML5 added a new attribute with roughly the proposed semantics but:
>>>> Limited it to inputs of type “text” and “search”, and
>>>> Called it dirname. The problem with the name “submitdir” is that most
>>>> people apparently take it> to mean the plausible “directory you submit to”
>>>> (i.e. similar to “action” - someone even
>>>> suggested renaming it “actiondir” "
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> My comment: all of the alternate names still seem like they are intended
>>> to access a directory.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not an argument for me.
>>
>> Indeed, the word "dir" may seem not appropriate, and a better name is
>> welcome. But I don't see why "dir" would be taken to be related to the word
>> "directory", which is an english word.
>> I'm not sure why a non english speaker, e.g. french person working in
>> french context, even though he/she uses english terms like 'form' 'strong'
>> 'action' 'input' etc., would think about the word "dir" to be related to a
>> "répertoire", which is the french word for the directory concept.
>>
>> Best, Najib
>>
>>> Why not textdir ?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> C. E. Whitehead
>>> cewcathar@hotmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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