Re: browsers + arrow keys + bidi

On 3/2/18 4:53 AM, Andre Schappo wrote:
> 
> Actually,having thought about it a bit more, I think we are seeing from
> different points of view with respect to mentally allocating the forward
> and back operations to the arrow keys. Once I have mentally allocated
> the keys to forward and back I no longer think about left or right. I
> think about forward and back wrt to the direction of the text.
> 
> So, an alternate way of thinking about it, wrt text selection, is:
> 
> in a ltr textbox with bidi text: right arrow becomes forward and left
> arrow becomes back
> in a rtl textbox with bidi text: left arrow becomes forward and right
> arrow becomes back
> 
> I am ok with this as long as all browsers operate the same way. So, for
> this scheme, Firefox is the odd one out.

Addison was kind enough to file a bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1442711

I'm following up with other folks on the Firefox team.

Peter