- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:59:28 +0000
- To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
- CC: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
CE Whitehead wrote: > > Hi, Aharon, I just scanned to 2.3: > >> "2.3 Support reporting the chosen direction of and in form submissions. >> >> "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” " >> > > My comment: all of the alternate names still seem like they are intended to access a directory. > Not an argument for me. Indeed, the word "dir" may seem not appropriate, and a better name is welcome. But I don't see why "dir" would be taken to be related to the word "directory", which is an english word. I'm not sure why a non english speaker, e.g. french person working in french context, even though he/she uses english terms like 'form' 'strong' 'action' 'input' etc., would think about the word "dir" to be related to a "répertoire", which is the french word for the directory concept. Best, Najib > Why not textdir ? > > Best, > > C. E. Whitehead > cewcathar@hotmail.com > >
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