- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:40:55 +0000
- To: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org
Hi Felix, all Felix Sasaki wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had a look at > http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#the-dir > were it says > "The processing of this attribute depends on the presentation layer. > For example, CSS 2.1 defines a mapping from this attribute to the CSS > 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties, and defines rendering in > terms of those properties." > This is quite different to HTML 4 > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#adef-dir > which contains references for implementers of the Unicode BIDI algorithm, Reference to the Bidi algorithm is put at the bdo description: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#bdo "The bdo element allows authors to override the Unicode bidi algorithm by explicitly specifying a direction override. [BIDI]" 4 paragraphs later, "The requirements on handling the bdo element for the bidi algorithm may be implemented indirectly through the style layer." It is not clear what do they mean here. Najib. > or ITS > http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#directionality-definition > which points to CSS 2.1 definitions not "For example", but recommends > to use these. > > I would propose to make a comment on HTML 5 that they should follow > the ITS approach, that is to be more specific about the required > semantics and recommend CSS 2.1 > > Any thoughts? > > Felix > > >
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