[Bug 10807] i18n comment 1 : new attribute: ubi

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10807

--- Comment #13 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-10-15 00:26:59 UTC ---
It seems to me that the use cases described in this bug can be most easily
addressed as follows:

1. Add an 'auto' value for the CSS 'direction' property that determines the
direction in a suitably automatic way.

2. Recommend that authors use the <output> element to mark up information from
users, and make <output> default to 'direction:auto'. This element defaults to
unicode-bidi:isolate.

So for a place name, you'd write:

   <output>Purple Pizza</output> - <a href="ppreviews.html">3 reviews</a>

If you knew the direction, e.g. a phone number, you could write:

   <output dir=ltr>+1 555 123 4567</output>

Are there any use cases that this would not address?

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Received on Friday, 15 October 2010 00:27:01 UTC