hixie: Clarify that <br> doesn't stop bidi processing. (whatwg r4483)

hixie: Clarify that <br> doesn't stop bidi processing. (whatwg r4483)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3582&r2=1.3583&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4482&to=4483

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.3583
diff -u -d -r1.3582 -r1.3583
--- Overview.html 5 Jan 2010 08:44:13 -0000 1.3582
+++ Overview.html 5 Jan 2010 11:16:16 -0000 1.3583
@@ -13052,6 +13052,9 @@
   <p>Any content inside <code><a href="#the-br-element">br</a></code> elements must not be
   considered part of the surrounding text.</p>
 
+  <p>A <code><a href="#the-br-element">br</a></code> element does not separate paragraphs for the
+  purposes of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. <a href="#refsBIDI">[BIDI]</a></p>
+
   </div><h4 id="the-pre-element"><span class="secno">4.5.4 </span>The <dfn><code>pre</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments</i><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
    <dd><a href="#formatblock-candidate"><code title="">formatBlock</code> candidate</a>.</dd>
@@ -15485,8 +15488,8 @@
    <dd>Uses <code><a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a></code>.</dd>
   </dl><p>The <code><a href="#the-bdo-element">bdo</a></code> element <a href="#represents">represents</a> explicit
   text directionality formatting control for its children. It allows
-  authors to override the Unicode bidi algorithm by explicitly
-  specifying a direction override. <a href="#refsBIDI">[BIDI]</a><p>Authors must specify the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code>
+  authors to override the Unicode bidirectional algorithm by
+  explicitly specifying a direction override. <a href="#refsBIDI">[BIDI]</a><p>Authors must specify the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code>
   attribute on this element, with the value <code>ltr</code> to
   specify a left-to-right override and with the value <code>rtl</code>
   to specify a right-to-left override.<div class="impl">
@@ -47746,7 +47749,7 @@
   <code>Document</code>.</p>
 
 
-  <h4 id="read-text"><span class="secno">6.11.4 </span><dfn title="navigate-text">Page load processing model for text files</dfn></h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments</i></p>
+  <h4 id="read-text"><span class="secno">6.11.4 </span><dfn title="navigate-text">Page load processing model for text files</dfn></h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Implemented and widely deployed</i></p>
 
   <p>When a plain text document is to be loaded in a <a href="#browsing-context">browsing
   context</a>, the user agent should <a href="#create-a-document-object">create a

Received on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:17:00 UTC