[Bug 27359] [Shadow]: Need to define interaction with directionality

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27359

--- Comment #13 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> ---
And we (the CSSWG) don't really intend to extend it to include that.  

Directionality is not a matter of style, but of content.  It's as much a part
of the host document as the text itself is, and belongs in the host document
for the same reason.  The CSS 'direction' property is a hack, intended solely
for use in styling arbitrary host languages that may not have a built-in way to
indicate directionality.  For HTML it shouldn't really be used, as HTML has
such a method - the dir attribute.

(Note, for example, that the 'all' shorthand does not expand into 'direction'
<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-cascade/#all-shorthand>, because 'direction' isn't
a styling property in the same way as everything else, it's a host-document
property that's encoded in CSS for convenience.)

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Received on Monday, 22 December 2014 19:50:57 UTC