- From: Arthur Barstow <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:05:33 -0400
- To: Addison Phillips <addison@amazon.com>, Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>, Felix Sasaki <felix.sasaki@fh-potsdam.de>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Hi Marcos, All, Has the I18N Core WG reviewed Marcos' latest proposal? If yes, where can we find their comments; if no, when can we expect a reply? -Art Barstow On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:07 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > On 29/03/10 5:16 PM, Phillips, Addison wrote: >> This doesn't make any sense to me. I think you are over-thinking >> this. >> >> The author element contains the author's *NAME*. It can also >> include an href and an email attribute. UTR#36 refers explicitly >> to IRIs and IDNA addresses, which would be the values of these >> attributes. However, it does NOT refer to plain text (the body of >> the element 'author') which is what the 'dir' attribute really >> applies to. To not provide bidirectional overrides for the >> author's name strikes me as incredibly short sighted, given that >> you can override any higher-level element. To have one place in >> your configuration document that requires controls is not to >> improve security, it is to reduce usability. > > I've updated the spec and the RelaxNG to include "rlo" and "lro". > >> It would make far more sense for you to cite UTR#36 with regard to >> an implementations presentation of the href or email attributes, >> suggesting (or forbidding) the application of the dir attribute to >> these values. But the body of the<author> element needs the bidi >> markup and should not depend on Unicode bidi controls. > > I trashed the old note, made this new note. > > [[ > Note: Implementations intending to display IRIs and IDNA addresses > found > in the configuration document are strongly encouraged to follow the > security advice given in [UTR36]. This could include, for example, > behaving as if the dir attribute had no effect on any IRI attributes, > path attributes, and the author element's email attribute. > ]] > > IRI attributes, path attributes are defined in the specification. > > Any better? > > Kind regards, > Marcos > > > -- > Marcos Caceres > Opera Software
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