Re: [web-annotation] ed sugg: textDirection

@gsergiu
The UBA also applies to rich Unicode text or plain/rich non-Unicode 
text (with some limitations that stem from insufficient coverage, e.g.
 inability to support directional embeddings, overrides or isolates).

Regarding media types other that "text", in my humble opinion, 
'textDirection' may always appear in ANNOTATIONS for the "BODY", but 
would apply to "TARGETS" with certain media types only (probably still
 not limited just to "text").

> Should we recommend to use a different value than the auto?
I do not see the spec recommends anywhere to default to 'auto'. 
It states though: "The notion of text direction is taken explicitly 
from the HTML5 [html5] dir attribute": 
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#the-dir-attribute."
- And "The Body or Target _**MAY**_ have exactly 1 textDirection 
associated with it", where "MAY" (as opposed to "MUST") suggests the 
default is "null", and the text direction is decided by an external 
resource exclusively.

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Received on Tuesday, 6 September 2016 16:42:17 UTC