Re: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML"

To the bidi-unaware, dir in combination with whatever words will mean
directory. Som directory-related meaning could even be found for textdir.
This is one reason that I think that the name has to use "direction", not
"dir". Another reason is that we want to underline the connection to the
direction style, not to the dir attribute: the value that the new feature
will submit is in fact the computed direction of the element, and will
collapse dir's "auto" value to either "ltr" and "rtl".

I do not want the attribute name to contain the word "name" unless we will
in fact require a non-empty value (as opposed to treating no value as
meaning to use the input's name suffixed with "_dir" or somesuch). And if we
want to require spelling out a name, then I would much prefer the "pull"
approach, i.e. <input name="foodir" directionof="foo" />

If we prefer to "push", perhaps withdirection?

Aharon

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:17 AM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi, Aharon, I just scanned to 2.3:
> > "2.3 Support reporting the chosen direction of  and in form submissions.
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> > "HTML5 added a new attribute with roughly the proposed semantics but:
> > Limited it to inputs of type “text” and “search”, and
> > Called it dirname. The problem with the name “submitdir” is that most
> people apparently take it> to mean the plausible “directory you submit to”
> (i.e. similar to “action” - someone even
> > suggested renaming it “actiondir” "
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> My comment: all of the alternate names still seem like they are intended to
> access a directory.
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> Why not textdir ?
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> Best,
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> C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar@hotmail.com