Re: f2f meeting day 1 notes: resolutions on sections 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML"

On 06/07/2010 07:12 PM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
> Day 1 of the face-to-face meeting on Additional Requir
>    8. (Section 3.1) Add a new HTML attribute that affects the behavior
>       of all descendant <br> elements.
>          1. Tentative syntax for the attribute:
>             bidi-break=”soft”|”hard”. The “soft” value means to treat
>             the <br> as the UBA bidi class WS. The “hard” value means to
>             treat it as B.
>          2. The default value is “hard”.
>          3. Thus, to get behavior like U+2028 in mark-up, use <br
>             bidi-break=soft>. It could also be specified on an ancestor,
>             e.g. for poetry.
>          4. The CSS equivalent is a new property,
>             unicode-bidi-break:hard|soft.

Actually, given that we resolved that the attribute would affect only
<br> and not line breaks, we don't need a CSS property to handle
white-space: pre; cases.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 8 June 2010 03:45:37 UTC