See below On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma> wrote: > Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: > >> Oops, I just realized that there is a problem with the simplified >> formulation. The <bdi> element has dir=auto by default. Thus, the >> title in <html dir=rtl><bdi dir=auto title="C++"> will be displayed >> as "C++", but the title in <html dir=rtl><bdi title="C++"> will be >> displayed as "++C", >> > > Am i missing something? I don't see the bug. > > Try to put content inside <bdi> > <div dir=rtl><bdi dir="auto" title="C++">a ا b > </span></bdi></div> > <div dir=rtl><bdi title="C++">a ا b </span></bdi></div> > > In the first case, the element's content (<bdi>) is displayed LTR "a ا b" > as expected by dir="auto". > So the attribute follows: shown as "C++". > In the second case, the content is displayed RTL "b ا a" as expected by > dir="rtl" in <div>. So "++C". > In the second case, the content being displayed RTL is *not *as expected. It should be LTR because <bdi> is supposed to have dir=auto by default. (See http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-bdi-element, "Note: The dir global attribute defaults to auto on this element ".) This is not currently implemented in either FF or WebKit. There are bugs filed on both. > Tested on Webkit (Google chrome and Safari) > > Najib > > PS: Note incidentally that there is a small bug (?) on Google chrome. > Spaces after the letter "b" are not ignored! > > > > > even though <bdi> is supposed to be the same as <bdi dir=auto>. >> >> I am not sure how to fix this in the simplified formulation while >> keeping it simple. >> >> Please note that my formulation *with* the dir=auto exception does >> not suffer from this problem. And I am still convinced that it will >> usually give better results. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Aharon >> > > >
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