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

input-direction seems like a good choice, if we're going to use a different
name.  I'm not yet convinced that we should, though.

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Ehsan
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote:

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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,
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> > Najib
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> O.k. thanks Najib for clarifying things; sorry I took a while to get back;
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> I would vote for one of the following names based on Najib and Aharon's
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> add-direction (without the "-as" mentioned in Aharon's very painstaking
> draft --  the word "as" I think is confusing -- but I confuse easily
> sometimes)
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> or alternately:
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> 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).
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> (I am still unclear as to what Aharon means by push/pull but I think it
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
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> so both push and pull are needed and which is used does not change my name
> preferences).
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> Hope this makes sense.
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> Best,
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> C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar@hotmail.com
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