Re: More best practices for RTL scripts (markup vs CSS for bidi).

On 01/11/2010 11:35 PM, fantasai wrote:
> On 11/26/2009 10:54 PM, Simon Montagu wrote:
>>
>> I assume your Gecko example is using a very recent version of Gecko,
>> such as a nightly build or a beta of Firefox 3.6? I fixed this issue
>> only a few months ago.
>>
>> The HTML standard does specify what to do in this case, see
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#style-bidi:
>>
>> "When a block element that does not have a dir attribute is transformed
>> to the style of an inline element by a style sheet, the resulting
>> presentation should be equivalent, in terms of bidirectional formatting,
>> to the formatting obtained by explicitly adding a dir attribute
>> (assigned the inherited value) to the transformed element."
>>
>> In practice, however, since browsers are not consistent, authors will
>> have to use CSS properties to achieve the expected results.
>
> Does this mean applying "unicode-bidi: embed" to all block-level elements?
> Because that seems like it fulfill those requirements.

I was thinking in terms of applying "unicode-bidi: embed" ad hoc 
whenever applying "display: inline" to a specific element, but applying 
it wholesale to all block-level elements will also work, of course.

Received on Thursday, 14 January 2010 08:49:56 UTC