- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:34:23 -0400
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@chromium.org>
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:10 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > In Gecko it's also implemented through CSS inheritance, but it's not > exposed to Web content as a CSS property. (Internally it's > '-x-lang', but that name isn't exposed.) > > We use the language for: > * font selection > * language-specific text-transform behavior > * hyphenation (which doesn't work unless it's explicitly specified, > as required by http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#hyphens-property ) It seems my earlier point about inheritance of text direction remains. Base URLs however are obsolete as only Gecko implements xml:base. If this is implemented through CSS, does it make sense to expose it through the DOM? -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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