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

> (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

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology>No, what I meant is this: the
original proposal (and Ian's current dirname draft) "push" the information
from the element on which it is declared into another control. It has no
effect on the value of the element on which it is declared. The alternative
is to "pull" the information to the element on which the new attribute is
declared from the element named by the attribute's value. For example,
<input name="foodir" directionof="foo"> would pull the direction from
another input, whose name is "foo", into the value of this one.

Aharon

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:59 AM, 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
> means this:
> 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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