New version of What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup

In line with changes about to be made to HTML5, and to align the 
material with the tutorial Aharon, Andrew and I delivered at the Unicode 
conference last week, I have produced an updated version of the document 
"What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup".

It is at the following *temporary* location:
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/update

(Note that I haven't yet reprogrammed the example code linked to from 
the body of the article.)

The result is a far simpler set of recommendations for content authors 
than we had before. Its a great endorsement of the decision to revise 
the semantics of the dir attribute.

Please take a look and send me comments.

RI


PS: Btw, I realised that our recommendation to use markup has also been 
vindicated in what is currently happening. It will take a while for the 
control codes to be supported by browsers, and there will continue to be 
a legacy issue for some time while older browsers don't support the new 
codes. We get around that problem quite effectively by using html markup 
and a CSS shim, and the transition will be much faster.

Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 19:49:09 UTC