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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10809 --- Comment #9 from Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> 2010-10-01 07:41:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > It seems to me that this doesn't need to be an attribute, just that the browser > > generates the direction metadata for any field for which the user has changed > > direction, without having the author having to opt-in to that behavior. > > That's not a good choice, because of possible cases like this: > > <input type="hidden" name="foo_dir" value="bar"> > <input type="text" name="foo"> > > This form will submit "foo_dir=bar" if the browser does not support this > proposal, but if it does and the user submits the form with the direction of > the second input changed, the form will submit "foo_dir=rtl" or "foo_dir=ltr". You could make the submitted metadata be something that the author cannot generate. (For instance, using HTTP headers.) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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