- From: John Gregg <johnnyg@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:59:16 -0700
- To: Drew Wilson <atwilson@google.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Doug Turner <dougt@dougt.org>, Web Notification WG <public-web-notification@w3.org>
> 1) Should notifications inherit the directionality of the parent document? > If not, that implies that we're explicitly not supporting RTL languages. If > we are inheriting the directionality of the parent document, what does that > mean for notifications generated from WebWorkers? What if the underlying > platform doesn't allow specifying directionality for notifications - should > the spec specify what should happen in that case? > The current draft says: "Since the notification does not have a parent element, if the notification's directionality state is not ltr or rtl, the directionality shall be the same as the document, or ltr if there is no document." So by default, it inherits, but the author can override. The workers (and extensions) use cases were motivating for providing a dir attribute rather than always inheriting from the page. Additionally, I had conversations with developers interested in RTL notifications (perhaps there are some on this list to elaborate?) who indicated that in practice, many RTL web pages are implemented as LTR at the page level and only specify RTL at lower levels, so the attribute is useful. -John
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