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

True, but as witnessed by the HTML WG's reaction, that does not seem to be a
strong-enough reason. Also, I do not want it for a different reason: it
makes for too strong a connection to the dir attribute and its set of
values, which includes "auto". This feature, on the other hand, is supposed
to collapse "auto" to the actual direction.

Aharon

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com> wrote:

> But dir is already part of HTML (as previously raised).
>
> --
> Ehsan
> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
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>
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <
> aharon@google.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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