RE: [widgets] dir and span elements

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Cheers,
RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/International/
http://rishida.net/




> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Caceres
> Sent: 26 February 2010 17:45
> To: public-webapps
> Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: [widgets] dir and span elements
> 
> Hi i18n WG,
> I've added the dir attribute and span elements to the Widgets P&C
> Specification, as well as a bunch of examples (which are wrong, so I
> would really appreciate some help with these!).
> 
> The dir attribute is specified here:
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#global-attributes
> 
> The span element is specified here:
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-span-element
> 
> The processing step that defers to the yet to be written [WIDGET-BIDI]
> specification is defined here:
> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#rule-for-getting-text-content
> 
> The specification makes it mandatory that a user agent implement the
> WIDGET-BIDI spec:
> 
> "A user agent is an implementation of this specification that also
> supports [XML], [XMLNS], [UTF-8], [DOM3CORE], [SNIFF], [WIDGETS-BIDI],
> and [ZIP]..."
> 
> We would appreciate your review and any assistance you can provide.
> In particular, we would appreciate your guidance into what would go
> into the Widgets Bidi specification (i.e., how processing is done for
> dir and span). At the moment, we only have the following text for such
> a specification (based on HTML5's bdo element):
> 
> [[
> If an element has the dir attribute set to the exact value ltr, then
> for the purposes of the bidi algorithm, the user agent must act as if
> there was a U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE character at the start of
> the element, and a U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING at the end of
> the
> element.
> 
> If the element has the dir attribute set to the exact value rtl, then
> for the purposes of the bidi algorithm, the user agent must act as if
> there was a U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE character at the start of
> the element, and a U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING at the end of
> the
> element.
> 
> The requirements on handling the span element for the bidi algorithm
> may be implemented indirectly through the style layer.
> ]]
> 
> Thanks again for all your time and help!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
> --
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
> 
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