Re: Suggested syntax for the hflip attribute

Should the name of the attribute then be changed to something like rtlflip?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>wrote:

> At the recent workshop on the document 'Additional Requirements for Bidi in
> HTML' held at the Israeli W3C office, an improvement was suggested for the
> hflip attribute, to give authors the option of either specifying a separate
> URL for ltr and rtl versions of an image, or  that the image should be
> flipped in rtl context.
>
> IIRC, the original suggestion was made by Amit Aharonovitch, and I strongly
> support it. Depending on image design, simple mirroring for RTL can often
> produce an ugly effect (for example with images that use shadows or
> gradients), and authors may well prefer to take on the extra burden of
> maintaining separate images for LTR and RTL, but will still want to use this
> attribute rather than having to swap the images depending on page direction.
>
> The following is my proposal for the syntax of the attribute:
>
> | hflip  (%URI;|flip|none) # none
> |
> | This attribute specifies an alternative image for use when the
> | computed direction of the image's parent element is RTL. When
> | the value of the attribute is a URI, the URI specifies the location
> | of the alternative image resource. When the value is "flip", the
> | image should be horizontally mirrored by the user agent. By default,
> | the value is "none", which means that the image is rendered
> | identically in both LTR and RTL contexts.
>
> By design, this proposal does not include the possibility of an original
> image designed for RTL context, to be flipped in LTR context.
>
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