- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:26:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: ishida@w3.org
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 ishida@w3.org wrote: > > Comment from the i18n review of: > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/ > > Comment 1 > At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/ > Editorial/substantive: S > Tracked by: RI > > Location in reviewed document: > 3.4.4 [http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-dir] > > Comment: \"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.\" > > We think that HTML 5, like HTML 4, should be able to render > bidirectional text without a style sheet. It would break backwards > compatibility to remove the ability of a browser to do so without CSS. > Therefore in our opinion, HTML 5 has to describe the expected behavior > in at least the detail of HTML 4 rather than leave it up to the > \"presentation layer\". > > Note that we do not want to impose a requirement on implementations of > HTML 5 to implement CSS, but you could describe the expected behaviour > by just referencing CSS and defining a default stylesheet fragment. This > would just mean that an HTML 5 implementation has to make things behave > as if it used this CSS default stylesheet fragment I have attempted to address this now. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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