[Bug 23260] Make the dir attribute use isolation instead of embedding

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23260

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> ---
(In reply to Aharon Lanin from comment #12)
> Primarily, what changed for me is that, unbeknownst to us, IE 8 - 10 started
> treating the dir attribute in a way that is [...]

Ah, interesting. I didn't realise that the problems with IE's behaviour were as
radical, and as clear of negative effects, as that. That's good to know.


> I profoundly apologize for my very partial (and self-serving) recollection.

No worries (apology fully accepted, thank you!). My concern wasn't so much that
I had proposed it, so much as we had decided against it before, and it wasn't
clear to me what had changed. Thank you for clarifying the impact of IE's bugs
to this decision.


Based on the lack of effect of IE's similar (though not identical) change, it
seems reasonable to make the change propose above, to satisfy the use cases in
bug 10807. This makes <bdi> pointless, as far as I can tell. Should we drop
<bdi>? (Should we replace it with <bde>, as a way to use the embeddings, should
anyone want them?)

Note that one set of pages that will be deeply affected by this are bidi test
cases. That's gonna be a mess and a half.

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