- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:12:19 +0200
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, w3c-html-wg@w3.org
- Cc: voyager-issues@mn.aptest.com, "www-html-editor@w3.org" <www-html-editor@w3.org>
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:03:21 +0200, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote: > So when you are building a language with Modularization, you have to > explicitely state that you are supporting bi-directional text. All W3C > family-members of XHTML do this. Given that the feature is also available in some form in Unicode this doesn't make much sense to me. I also don't really understand why such a feature should be optional. > We feel that just because the DOM includes an attribute on an element, > that doesn't automatically imply it should be exposed in the markup. > There are many things in the DOM that are not. When you serialize the DOM back to markup this creates problems. > But in any case, as I said in my earlier email, it is not the aim of > this revision of Modularization to change the markup languages using it, > even if we felt it was a good idea to add dir to the above elements. target="" is one thing which has been added, I don't really see why this can't be considered. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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