RE: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML" ("dir" & "directory")

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> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:14:59 +0000
> From: ntounsi@gmail.com
> To: cewcathar@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML" ("dir" & "directory")
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> CE Whitehead wrote:
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>> Hmm, one question: I think dir is already the established word in html for text direction so I assume we are stuck with the dir part of the term. Is that correct?
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> No. "dir" is perhaps not enough mnemonic and so connected to the HTML
> dir attribute. These are good reasons to choose another name, preferably
> related to direction style.
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> Best,
>
> Najib
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>
O.k. thanks Najib for clarifying things; sorry I took a while to get back; 
 
I would vote for one of the following names based on Najib and Aharon's info:

add-direction (without the "-as" mentioned in Aharon's very painstaking draft --  the word "as" I think is confusing -- but I confuse easily sometimes)

or alternately:

input-direction ??? (this is long but no longer than add-direction-as; I do hope no one is still writing a lot of code by hand as I have done, without an application).
 
(I am still unclear as to what Aharon means by push/pull but I think it means this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
 
so both push and pull are needed and which is used does not change my name preferences).
 
Hope this makes sense.

Best,

C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com

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