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- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:59:58 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10818 --- Comment #8 from Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> 2010-10-15 03:59:58 UTC --- We generally claim that we want people to use markup instead of the Unicode bidi controls. And we've gone out of our way to provide a 'dir' attribute on just about anything that might require it. So it seems like a strange oversight to have one place in which the author must explicitly provide the invisible and otherwise deprecated control characters. What's more, the title and alt attributes are often rendered using native controls (such as tooltips) rather than in the page render space controlled by the user agent. It isn't clear if the Unicode controls will always have the desired affect there (some API might need to be called or the controls might even show as 'tofu' empty box glyphs). You're correct that we don't provide the other modifications, such as styling or language, that might occasionally be useful. But generally an unadorned string can be rendered legibly by the user-agent with such additional cruft. However, bidi is different (see examples above). Finally, attributes, like much else, are scriptable or dynamically generated. Attribute values are much easier to assign when appropriate than it is to add Unicode bidi controls on the fly. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You reported the bug.
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