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

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

--- Comment #5 from Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> 2012-03-29 19:32:51 UTC ---
(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.

But unicode-bidi: isolate and unicode-bidi: plaintext are as semantically
important as dir=ltr or dir=rtl. Isn't that precisely why we have bdi? Why did
we permit bdi to have a CSS equivalent but not dir=auto? What's the
justification for that?

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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:32:55 UTC