[whatwg] textContent and bidi

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, fantasai wrote:
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> Ran across this comment:
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> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#features
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>   # Should textContent be defined differently for dir="" and <bdo>?
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> What would it mean to define textContent differently for dir="" and <bdo>?

The question is really whether we want an attribute that, when it 
serialises the DOM, serialises things like <img alt=""> to the element's 
alt text, serialises things like dir="" to embed the requisite bidi 
formatting characters, etc. (Obviously we can't redefine textContent 
itself, and innerText is subtly different as well.)

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