Re: neutral paragraphs in unicode-bidi:plaintext

On 12/15/2010 02:23 PM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
> Currently, the CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 spec on unicode-bidi:plaintext
> <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#unicode-bidi> states:
>
> "However, if no direction-determining character is found in step P2, then the value of the ‘direction’ property is used instead."
>
> I now believe that this exception is counterproductive. The whole idea of unicode-bidi:plaintext is to display (HTML-escaped)
> plain-text content in <pre> and <textarea> the way it would be displayed in a fully UBA-compliant plain-text editor, where it
> may have been authored, and this deviation from the UBA breaks that.
>
> Thus, I believe that this sentence should be removed.

Fixed in the latest editor's draft.

~fantasai

Received on Thursday, 24 February 2011 06:41:54 UTC