hixie: Mention dir='' in the persisted user state stuff now that the user can change it too. (whatwg r5893)

hixie: Mention dir='' in the persisted user state stuff now that the
user can change it too. (whatwg r5893)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4733&r2=1.4734&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5892&to=5893

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4733
retrieving revision 1.4734
diff -u -d -r1.4733 -r1.4734
--- Overview.html 15 Feb 2011 00:59:41 -0000 1.4733
+++ Overview.html 15 Feb 2011 01:14:10 -0000 1.4734
@@ -31761,6 +31761,7 @@
   element's <a href="#concept-fe-value" title="concept-fe-value">value</a>.</p>
 
   <!-- this next bit is also in the <textarea> section -->
+  <!-- and something similar is in the session history section -->
   <p>If the element is <i title="concept-input-mutable"><a href="#concept-input-mutable">mutable</a></i>,
   the user agent should allow the user to change the writing direction
   of the element, setting it either to a left-to-right writing
@@ -36295,6 +36296,7 @@
   attribute.</p>
 
   <!-- this next bit is also in the <input> Text/Search section -->
+  <!-- and something similar is in the session history section -->
   <p>If the element is <a href="#concept-textarea-mutable" title="concept-textarea-mutable">mutable</a>, the user agent
   should allow the user to change the writing direction of the
   element, setting it either to a left-to-right writing direction or a
@@ -45347,10 +45349,21 @@
    persisted user state</a>, but its URL has a fragment identifier,
    <a href="#scroll-to-the-fragment-identifier">scroll to the fragment identifier</a>.</li>
 
-   <li><p>If the entry is <a href="#an-entry-with-persisted-user-state">an entry with persisted user
-   state</a>, the user agent may update aspects of the document and
-   its rendering, for instance the scroll position or values of form
-   fields, that it had previously recorded.</li>
+   <li>
+
+    <p>If the entry is <a href="#an-entry-with-persisted-user-state">an entry with persisted user
+    state</a>, the user agent may update aspects of the document
+    and its rendering, for instance the scroll position or values of
+    form fields, that it had previously recorded.</p>
+
+    <!-- see similar paragraphs in the textarea and input sections -->
+    <p class="note">This can even include updating the <code title="attr-dir"><a href="#the-dir-attribute">dir</a></code> attribute of <code><a href="#the-textarea-element">textarea</a></code>
+    elements or <code><a href="#the-input-element">input</a></code> elements whose <code title="attr-input-type"><a href="#attr-input-type">type</a></code> attribute is in either the
+    <a href="#text-state-and-search-state" title="attr-input-type-text">Text</a> state or the <a href="#text-state-and-search-state" title="attr-input-type-search">Search</a> state, if the
+    persisted state includes the directionality of user input in such
+    controls.</p>
+
+   </li>
 
    <li><p>If the entry is a <a href="#state-object">state object</a> entry, let <var title="">state</var> be a <a href="#structured-clone">structured clone</a> of that
    state object. Otherwise, let <var title="">state</var> be

Received on Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:15:26 UTC