[css-writing-modes] Drop Appendix B: Bidi Rules for HTML 4 (was Re: [css-scoping] unicode-bidi in Shadow DOM, and possibly other properties?

Changed the subject to make sure this gets attention from the people
interested in writing modes spec.

I'm good with Simon's proposal to drop this appendix. Please let us know if any.

/koji

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:56:36 +0100, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Can bi-di & CSS experts help us to figure out what to do with unicode-bidi
>> and Shadow DOM?
>>
>> I’m thinking, at the Shadow DOM boundaries, the ‘unicode-bidi’ property
>> should be set to ‘isolate’ since that’s the value for bi-di to suffice the
>> philosophy of components IIUC. Is this correct? In Bidi Rules for HTML4[1],
>> I see <div>, <form>, etc. sets this, but I don’t see <input> or <textarea>,
>> so I’m not confident on this point and would appreciate any advices.
>
>
> Maybe https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#bidi-rendering
> is more relevant than the "for HTML4" appendix. (Can we drop those
> appendices? Why do we have them?)

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