Re: Proposal for new direction attribute

Making an element with a dir attribute isolated by default was indeed
considered and rejected due to backward compatibility considerations, as
explained at length in the article.

Making an element with a lang attribute have direction and/or isolation by
default is something that should be considered, but is orthogonal to our
primary aim: making directionality declaration use isolation by default,
since the lang attribute is only rarely used in bidi documents.
בתאריך 20 בפבר 2013 16:02, מאת "Amir E. Aharoni" <
amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>:

> The direction/dir transition plan is nice.
>
> It's a bit disappointing, though, that neither of the following
> suggestions was considered:
> 1. Make any element with an explicit lang or dir attribute
> bidi-isolated by default
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18490
>
> 2. Apply the direction according to language
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19888
>
> Is there, maybe, a plan to consider this in the future?
>
> --
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>
>
> 2013/2/20 Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>:
> > Unicode 6.3 will shortly be released, and will contain new control codes
> > (RLI, LRI, FSI, PDI) to enable authors to express isolation at the same
> time
> > as direction in inline bidirectional text. The Unicode Consortium
> recommends
> > that isolation be used as the default for all future inline bidirectional
> > text embeddings.
> >
> > The i18n WG has been discussing how to ensure that HTML5 encourages and
> > enables content authors to adopt and apply isolation *as the default*
> > whenever they set direction on inline content, and discourage future use
> of
> > dir=rtl or dir=ltr (which does not produce isolation).
> >
> > The proposal of the WG, with rationales, can be found at
> > http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Html-bidi-isolation
> >
> > i18n WG folks, please let me know asap if you think this needs changing
> in
> > some way.
> >
> > RI
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard Ishida
> > W3C
> > http://rishida.net/
> >
>
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