[Bug 16456] direction property should support auto as a value

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16456

--- Comment #4 from Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> 2012-03-29 19:29:55 UTC ---
You should not be using CSS to set bidi properties.(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Why did we add unicode-bidi: isolate, plaintext, etc... then?
> 
> To support the HTML spec's bidi features, because bidi reordering is defined at
> the CSS layer.

Like Ryosuke, i don't understand this. bidi reordering is defined at the CSS
layer, but one should not be using CSS to set bidi properties. Some bidi
features are accessible through CSS and some aren't.

I keep hearing the "CSS shouldn't be used for bidi" mantra, but i never heard a
proper explanation for it. This bug report is probably a bad place to discuss
it, but i couldn't find anything better.

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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:29:58 UTC