Re: XHTML Basic and XHTML modularization: ACRONYM and BDO

From: Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:44:27 -0800 Message-ID: <38B2D90B.1947D72D@eng.sun.com> To: Jonny Axelsson <jonny@metastasis.net> CC: www-html@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:15:42 GMT

Jonny Axelsson wrote:
[...] 
> And as for BDO, what is the point with the BDO element, given that every
> applicable element, in particular SPAN, has a DIR attribute? What
> advantages has

BDO stands for 'bidirectional override' and is a necessary component for
i18n. You need a combination of a 'lang' or 'xml:lang' attribute, a 'dir'
attribute, and the ability to override direction using <bdo>. This is 
explained in some detail in the HTML 4.0 specification.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
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