- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:27:32 -0000
- To: <marcosc@opera.com>
- Cc: "'Phillips, Addison'" <addison@amazon.com>, "'Scott Wilson'" <scott.bradley.wilson@gmail.com>, "'public-webapps'" <public-webapps@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, "'Felix Sasaki'" <felix.sasaki@fh-potsdam.de>
I agree with Felix. Note also for example that the HTML 4.01 spec also says "This attribute specifies the base direction of directionally neutral text ... in an element's content *and attribute values*. " (my emphasis). There are, of course, some problems with applying directionality to attributes where their base direction is different than that of the element content or they contain text which needs to have embeddings applied to just a part of the text. These are some of the reasons that we and the ITS spec always advise against using user readable text in attributes - use elements for that stuff. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/ From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Felix Sasaki Sent: 10 March 2010 16:15 To: marcosc@opera.com Cc: Phillips, Addison; Scott Wilson; public-webapps; public-i18n-core@w3.org Subject: Re: [widgets] dir and span elements Hi Marcos, 2010/3/10 Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com> Hi Addison, Richard, and i18 WG, [snip] Upon reflection on the discussion above, I think the dir attr must behave the same as xml:lang - meaning that the value of dir is applied to the element, all its attributes, and its child nodes. Correct. This is also how the element is defined in ITS, see the "inheritance" column at http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#datacategories-defaults-etc : "Textual content of element, including attributes and child elements", the same as "language information" in the same table (a mediator for xml:lang). Best, Felix No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2732 - Release Date: 03/09/10 19:33:00
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