- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:38:27 +0200
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: "GEO" <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>, "'fantasai'" <fantasai@inkedblade.net>, "'Steven Pemberton'" <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
* Richard Ishida wrote: >[2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/temp.html The document correctly notes that there may be user agents that do not recognize the markup. To clarify what this means, I've made a copy of the document above with entities replaced by character references and the document type declaration and namespace declaration removed, http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/qa-bidi-css-markup.xml If you compare the two documents in e.g. Mozilla FireFox you will note that even if you follow the recommendation in the document to use CSS rules to control bidi and direction properties, you won't get a usable result. To demonstrate how close the current style sheets are, I've made another document which just links the two style sheets using the xml-stylesheet processing instruction, http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/qa-bidi-css-markup-2.xml And based on this one I made a third version which just adds some rules found in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html including the proposed rules for bidi markup in the proposed FAQ, http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/qa-bidi-css-markup-3.xml So at least for FireFox we're now at a point where the document is no longer unreadable; I would not say the document is particularily readable, usable or functional though. You note that even after adding replacements for the <style> and <link> elements, many things still don't work, e.g., links, class attributes, forms, images, the <title> element, etc. Making XHTML documents "work" in some way in user agents that do not support XHTML is very different from simply serving XHTML documents as application/xhtml+xml to user agents that *do* support XHTML, as you can see when loading e.g. http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/qa-bidi-css-markup-4.xml in FireFox. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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