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- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:52:03 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-117: Close definition of dir auto [HTML5-prep] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/117 Raised by: Addison Phillips On product: HTML5-prep 3.2.3.4 The xml:base attribute (XML only) http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-xml:base-attribute-xml-only The dir 'auto' value has this note: -- The heuristic used by this state is very crude (it just looks at the first character with a strong directionality, in a manner analogous to the Paragraph Level determination in the bidirectional algorithm). Authors are urged to only use this value as a last resort when the direction of the text is truly unknown and no better server-side heuristic can be applied. -- Does HTML5 need to define auto so closely that no user-agent can provide a better algorithm? That seems counter-productive. Some room for innovation should be preserved.
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