Comments on "Text direction and structural markup in HTML"

The following are comments on " Text direction and structural markup in HTML" (http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/new-bidi-xhtml/qa-html-dir).

 

1)      The "intended audience" is not relevant.

2)      The sentence " You should also read the separate article about handling inline bidirectional text, entitled What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup" seems to indicate that "handling inline bidirectional text" is a section in the article "What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup", but the links point to 2 different articles.

3)      The link to "workaround" in section "quick answer" is broken.

4)      In section "Base direction", the link to "Unicode bidirectional algorithm" does not go there.

5)      In "Basic markup", the link to "What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup" is broken.

6)      In "Working with tables", in the last case, it seems more natural to add align="left" to the div in order to affect the alignment rather than dir="ltr".

7)      In the side note parallel to "Don't go markup crazy!", the link to "How to mark up the document" is broken.

8)      We find " Unnecessary use of the dir attribute potentially creates unnecessary additional work for page maintenance and also impacts bandwidth."
The impact on  bandwidth is so small that it is not worth mentioning IMHO.
Same for the sentence after the Arabic example.

9)      In "Handling content whose direction is not known in advance", there is a note about using HTML 5 features. However, such features (dir="auto", bdi) were mentioned earlier in the article without a similar warning.

10)   The link for "HTML4.01, 8.2.4 Overriding the bidirectional algorithm: the BDO element" goes to IANA!

 

 

Shalom (Regards),  Mati