- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:43:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: ishida@w3.org
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 ishida@w3.org wrote: > Comment 4 > At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/ > > Comment: Please consider allowing two new attribute values for the > \"dir\" attribute: \'rlo\' and \'lro\'for dir. You do not need to remove > the bdo element, but the new values will allow content authors to > proceed to a scenario we described in the ITS 1.0 specification > [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#directionality], It will > also provide some additional power to the authors, since they will be > able to attach dir=\"lro\" to a block element. Could you elaborate on the use case here? Why would this be better than the <bdo> element? Is the improvement enough to warrant the cost? I looked at the ITS spec but could not see any reason to encourage authors to do block-level direction overriding. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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