- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:32:12 +0900
- To: Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan@mozilla.com>
- CC: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
On 2012/02/23 1:11, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin<aharon@google.com >> wrote: >> One possibility is to divorce user-visible attributes from their elements' >> directionality completely, always estimating the directionality of each >> attribute by its content. This suffers from backwards compatibility >> problems (since estimation is a heuristic that sometimes gives the wrong >> answer). >> >> A better possibility is to divorce it only for elements under the >> influence of dir=auto. Thus, if an element has dir=auto (explicitly or >> implicitly, the latter being the case for<bdi>), each of the attributes in >> the subrtree rooted at that element, with the exception of elements >> specifying dir="ltr" or dir="rtl" and their descendants, must be displayed >> to the user as if they had a dir=auto of heir own. >> > > I like the second proposal better. Although I have to say that it has been > worded a bit vaguely. What I have in mind is for the title attribute in > the following example to have a resolved RTL direction: > > <p dir="auto" title="RTL TEXT followed by ltr text">ltr text FOLLOWED BY > RTL TEXT</p> I agree with Ehsan that the second proposal is better. It's something that comes quite naturally once one gets used to it. Regards, Martin.
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