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

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

--- Comment #14 from Aharon Lanin <aharon.lists.lanin@gmail.com> ---
> No worries (apology fully accepted, thank you!).

Thank you!

> 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?


If we were doing this from scratch now, we would not bother introducing <bdi>.
I am not sure it is a good idea to drop it, though, because it is starting to
be used, and because it is handy for marking off unknown-direction inserts due
to its dir="auto" default. It could be re-labeled as "bidi insert" instead of
"bidi isolate".

I don't think we need <bde>. One can always get a very close approximation of
embedding by using &lrm;s or &rlm;s around an inline element with (an
isolating) dir attribute (whichever matches the parent's directionality). Or
one can use CSS in the page to override the default CSS change that will make
dir isolating.

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Received on Thursday, 10 October 2013 08:07:35 UTC