[Bug 10827] i18n comment 23 : script dialog text direction

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10827

--- Comment #19 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-12-07 21:03:36 UTC ---
> For some strange reason, I do not see the change at
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html.

Should be there now, there was some temporary glitch in the commit process. For
future reference, the draft at http://whatwg.org/c has all the text discussed
here also.

> But the change in the diff looks good, with one minor suggestion: instead of
> saying that "this specification does <em>not</em> provide a higher-level
> override of rules P2 and P3", which could be interpreted as allowing user
> agents to come up with their own override, would it be possible to specify that
> no such override shall be used, e.g. "For the purposes of determining the
> paragraph level of such text in the bidirectional algorithm, rules P2 and P3 of
> that algorithm are to be applied without applying a higher-level override."?

Some other spec might define it, so we can't really do that without risking
specs contradicting each other. It doesn't allow UAs to do anything they want,
since in the absence of some other spec, the bidi spec is already authoritative
and doesn't allow UAs to make up their own rules.

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Received on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:03:38 UTC