Re: [css-text] Arabic letters connecting between elements with display: inline

On 5/22/2014 2:13 PM, Richard Ishida wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 19:20, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
>>     The issue is (as the title says) whether Arabic letters connect 
>> between
>>     elements with 'display: inline', for example in this case:
>>        <p>foo<span color="blue">bar</span>baz</p>
>>
>>
>> I think that there is little question that this is useful. And, barring
>> complications like font changes, it works in IE and FF. That it doesn't
>> work in WebKit and Blink is a bug.
>
>
> Fwiw, here's an example where you'd want to do that. Omantel is the 
> primary provider of internet services in Oman. (see the attachment)
>
> RI

Handling color breaks is reasonable. It's a really common task, e.g. in 
highlighting selections, so a lack of support is clearly a bug, even for 
ordinary rendering engines.

A./

Received on Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:32:23 UTC