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

> Hmm, I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.  adddirection
> to me is as strange as input-direction is to you, I think.
> What are we adding the direction to?

To the form submission.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <
> aharon@google.com> wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>>
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.  adddirection to me is as
> strange as input-direction is to you, I think.  What are we adding the
> direction to?
>
> The reason that I suggested input-direction was to suggest the attribute
> reflecting the direction of user's input, I wasn't trying to connect it to
> the input element, but I can see how people might get confused by this.
>
> I'm not sure I have a better suggestion, but then again, I'm not very good
> with picking names!
>
>
>> > if we're going to use a different name. I'm not yet convinced that we
>> should, though.
>>
>> Different than what?
>>
>
> "dir", I meant.
>
> Ehsan
>