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

> input-direction seems like a good choice

What does the "input" part of the attribute add? The element is already
called an input. And I don't think that there is any hint either of what the
effect of this attribute or what its value might be.

That is why I am thinking more along the lines of adddirection.

> if we're going to use a different name. I'm not yet convinced that we
should, though.

Different than what?

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> wrote:

> input-direction seems like a good choice, if we're going to use a different
> name.  I'm not yet convinced that we should, though.
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> Ehsan
> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>wrote:
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>> > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:14:59 +0000
>> > From: ntounsi@gmail.com
>> > To: cewcathar@hotmail.com
>> > Subject: Re: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi
>> in HTML" ("dir" & "directory")
>> >
>> > CE Whitehead wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hmm, one question: I think dir is already the established word in html
>> for text direction so I assume we are stuck with the dir part of the term.
>> Is that correct?
>> >>
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>> > No. "dir" is perhaps not enough mnemonic and so connected to the HTML
>> > dir attribute. These are good reasons to choose another name, preferably
>> > related to direction style.
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>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Najib
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>> O.k. thanks Najib for clarifying things; sorry I took a while to get back;
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>> I would vote for one of the following names based on Najib and Aharon's
>> info:
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>> add-direction (without the "-as" mentioned in Aharon's very painstaking
>> draft --  the word "as" I think is confusing -- but I confuse easily
>> sometimes)
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>> or alternately:
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>> input-direction ??? (this is long but no longer than add-direction-as; I
>> do hope no one is still writing a lot of code by hand as I have done,
>> without an application).
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>> (I am still unclear as to what Aharon means by push/pull but I think it
>> means this:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
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>> so both push and pull are needed and which is used does not change my name
>> preferences).
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>> Hope this makes sense.
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>> Best,
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>> C. E. Whitehead
>> cewcathar@hotmail.com
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