- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:28:59 -0600
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa WG <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
On 3/6/2011 2:48 AM, Ivan Herman wrote: > > Wow, we have to be careful. If we do not say left-to-right, then this means an RDFa processor will have to adapt itself to the document language. Let alone the fact that I am not even sure what top-down would mean. Even a Japanese HTML file is written in left-to-right as far as the element tags etc are concerned. I think such a change in wording would do much more harm than good! This is actually *why* you use terms like 'document order' or 'beginning to end' rather than 'left to right'. Because regardless of the directionality of the character set / encoding of a document, a document always has an order, and it always has a beginning, and that order is well understood. I am pretty sure that the 'beginning to end' text is something we were handed by the I18N Working Group back in the day. I am going to stick with it unless someone from that group tells me to use something else. Or unless Steven has a different recollection. Steven? -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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