- From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:33:30 -0700
15.06.2011, ? 16:13, Ryosuke Niwa ???????(?): > Now, in horizontal writing modes, 'left' and 'right' are used to move caret > in visual order (in the sense of bidirectional text) and 'forward' and > 'backward' are used to move in logical order. However, swapping the meaning > of 'character' and 'line' for 'forward' and 'backward' is quite confusing as > they used to walk DOM in logical order, and didn't depend on how characters > are presented. I think that redefining "left" and "right" to mean something different would be much more confusing in the long run. Just like we didn't redefine "left" and "right" for RTL, I don't see why we need to do that for vertical text. - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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