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

Directory listing is ls under Unix. Not sure dir suggest directory for 
everybody, especially in the context of the Web.
Anyway :-)

Najib

Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin 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 
> <mailto:ntounsi@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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 <mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com>          
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