[Bug 10812] New: i18n comment 7 : line breaks in textarea and pre elements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10812

           Summary: i18n comment 7 : line breaks in textarea and pre
                    elements
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org


Comment from the i18n review of:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Comment 7
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/html5-bidi/
Editorial/substantive: S
Tracked by: AL

Location in reviewed document:
undefined [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html#contents]

Comment:This is a part of the proposals made by the "Additional Requirements
for Bidi in HTML" W3C First Public Working Draft. For a full description of the
use cases, please see 
http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#newline-as-separator
[http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#newline-as-separator]
. Here is the proposal made there:

In elements where line breaks are not collapsed, e.g. <textarea> and elements
with white-space:pre|pre-line|pre-wrap, line breaks should constitute UBA
paragraph breaks.

When a line break introduces a UBA paragraph break, the base direction of the
new UBA paragraph will be determined by the computed direction of the nearest
ancestor element whose bidi properties require its contents to be in a separate
UBA paragraph (or sequence of paragraphs), e.g. a block element or an element
directionally isolated by the ubi attribute (which is being proposed in a
separate bug). Furthermore, for every element on the path in between that
results in the creation of an embedding or override level, e.g. a <bdo> element
or any element with a dir attribute or a value other than "normal" for the
unicode-bidi CSS property, the correspondeng embedding or override level is
re-introduced at the start of the new UBA paragraph (to be closed at the end of
the element or the UBA paragraph, whichever comes first).

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Received on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:37:44 UTC