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

Because dir was the command for getting a directory listing in VMS and
MS-DOS, among others, and because English is the language used as the lingua
franca (:-) of computing - witness this thread.

Aharon

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com> wrote:

> CE Whitehead wrote:
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>> Hi, Aharon, I just scanned to 2.3:
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>>> "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” "
>>>
>>>
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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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> 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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