- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:31:58 +0100
- To: Matitiahu Allouche <matitiahu.allouche@gmail.com>
- CC: 'Aharon Lanin' <aharon@google.com>, Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, public-i18n-core@w3.org, member-i18n-core@w3.org
On 23/05/2012 18:04, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: > The following are comments on " Text direction and structural markup in > HTML" > (http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/new-bidi-xhtml/qa-html-dir). > > 1)The "intended audience" is not relevant. Fixed. > > 2)The sentence " You should also read the separate article about > handling inline bidirectional text, entitled What you need to know about > the bidi algorithm and inline markup" seems to indicate that "handling > inline bidirectional text" is a section in the article "What you need to > know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup", but the links point to > 2 different articles. Not sure i follow that, but I rewrote as: "For handling bidirectional text with inline markup you should read the separate article, What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup." Any better? > > 3)The link to "workaround" in section "quick answer" is broken. Seems ok now. > > 4)In section "Base direction", the link to "Unicode bidirectional > algorithm" does not go there. ditto > > 5)In "Basic markup", the link to "What you need to know about the bidi > algorithm and inline markup" is broken. ditto > > 6)In "Working with tables", in the last case, it seems more natural to > add align="left" to the div in order to affect the alignment rather than > dir="ltr". I think Aharon had some comments on this too. I'll look at it again. > > 7)In the side note parallel to "Don't go markup crazy!", the link to > "How to mark up the document" is broken. Fixed. > > 8)We find " Unnecessary use of the dir attribute potentially creates > unnecessary additional work for page maintenance and also impacts > bandwidth." > The impact on bandwidth is so small that it is not worth mentioning IMHO. > Same for the sentence after the Arabic example. > > 9)In "Handling content whose direction is not known in advance", there > is a note about using HTML 5 features. However, such features > (dir="auto", bdi) were mentioned earlier in the article without a > similar warning. Addressed. > > 10)The link for "HTML4.01, 8.2.4 Overriding the bidirectional algorithm: > the BDO element" goes to IANA! Old cruft. Already removed. Thanks, RI > > Shalom (Regards), *Mati* > -- Richard Ishida, W3C http://rishida.net/
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