- From: Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:02:23 -0400
- To: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Cc: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > From: Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:48:10 -0400 > To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org >> This mail had bounced... > >> What I actually mean is that setting the direction for img elements >> doesn't actually have any effect on how the image is displayed or >> layed out, so the img's direction can be "hijacked" to only affect the >> directionality of the alt text. > Thanks for your information on this. > So you are saying that no additional directionality attribute is needed for > the alt attribute? Yes, that's what I'm proposing. > (One note though: it may be clearer to content authors to have a > directionality on the alt attribute rahter than only the img directionality > attribute.) My suggestion was in hopes of not adding attributes unless absolutely necessary. Otherwise, I don't feel strongly against adding an attribute for alt text directionality anyway. -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
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