3.8 <input type="text"> and <textarea> should support interoperable "set direction" functionality -- just a quick question (Was: RE: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML)"

Hi, Aharon, all; sorry I am still slowly responding to/the online status document (but am nearly fihished):

> 3.8 <input type="text"> and <textarea> should support interoperable "set direction"
> functionality
> Bug 10821 filed on HTML5. 
> Proposes specifying that when the user agent user interface allows the user to set the direction
> of <input> and <textarea> elements, it will set the element's dir attribute value accordingly
> and trigger the oninput event after the dir attribute has been set. 
> HTML5 changed as proposed. In fact, the change includes that the user agent “should allow the
> user to change the writing direction of the element”. However, the change is only applied to
> inputs of type “text” and “search”. 
> Close the bug?
ME:  Perhaps close this bug then; on what other inputs would you have this change apply? 
Passwords?  Perhaps it should apply to those.  Certainly not to selection inputs (checkboxes, radio boxes) I assume.

(I am sorry to ask this but -- I have not dealt with other inputs myself; hopefully this is my last question; in any case thanks for the online status document with links to the bugs filed)
 
Best,
 
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com 



________________________________
> From: aharon@google.com
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:30:30 -0800
> To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
> Subject: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML"
>
> Here is an implementation status
> document summarizing
> the status of each proposal. I will continue to update it as the status
> continues to change.
>
> If some part of the status is not to your liking, you are most welcome
> to contribute to the discussion on the various bugs and threads linked
> by the document while it is still possible to change things. Or, if you
> can try to get a consensus here on public-i18n-bidi first.
>
> Regards,
> Aharon

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