- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:04:27 -0400
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, www-style@w3.org, Greg Whitworth <gwhit@microsoft.com>
On 03/12/2015 10:33 AM, Simon Pieters wrote: > > direction:rtl anywhere, 83,121 pages (~63.94%). This is *way* higher than I expected. Yes, that's clearly absurd. RTL pages or even mixed-use ones aren't 64% of the Web. Maybe it's set in some library? > I'm not sure what to make of this. I suppose the httparchive dataset has a different bias than the data Greg uses. I can see a > few options for next steps if we want to move this to HTML: > > * Someone implements new use-counters/telemetry/etc to gauge the impact. > * Someone tries to implement and ship dir special-casing in HTML and see what breaks. Given the existing behavior is noticeably buggy for 'direction' on BODY anyway, I'm somewhat inclined to do the second thing... > That said, "doing it in HTML" could mean different things. Is it > implemented in the HTML parser? Or as part of HTML's > rendering rules? I'd either do it in the HTML parser or as part of the directionality assignment rules: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#the-dir-attribute Not a strong opinion on which one -- whatever's easiest from the HTML perspective. ~fantasai
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