- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:19:42 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Chris Lilley wrote: > > > > The SVG Tiny 1.2 specification says: > > > > # For bidirectional text, the user agent must support text selection in > > # logical order [...] > > > > This is an inappropriate requirement. Usability testing may discover > > that this is not the optimal text selection mechanism, or that > > providing this text selection mechanism causes user harm. > > It concerns the ordering of the characters in the text selection What is "the text selection", such that it can have the property of having a logical vs visual order? I don't understand what this requirement means. In fact with your clarification I understand it even less than I thought I did before. Could you explain, for instance, how I would test compliance to this conformance criteria, as a QA engineer? (Your response so far does not address my request.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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