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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10828 --- Comment #44 from Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> 2011-01-09 08:36:27 UTC --- I reopened the bug because I was the one who opened it, and it turns that part of the information based on which I opened it was incorrect. This deserved to be brought to your attention, and let the chips fall where they may. In my opinion things should stay as they currently are, i.e. with <br> defined as a bidi paragraph break. As always, I admit that this is theoretically inconsistent with the recommended use of <br>, for things like poetry and addresses. However: 1. This is consistent with the way <br> is actually used, which is as the HTML equivalent of a plain-text line break, which is most often actually a paragraph break. Authors and applications that use <br> that way, e.g. when taking user input into a contentEditable element, do so because it is a lot more convenient to use than <p> or <div>, and (besides the bidi aspect, which most often is at best a secondary concern) it works regardless of how the spec says <br> should be used. 2. The bidi mis-ordering that is caused by the treatment as whitespace of a line break that the author meant as a paragraph break is far worse than the mis-ordering in the opposite case. -- 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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