- From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:18:25 -0400
- To: David Rashty +972-2-6584848 <RASHTY@WWW4.HUJI.AC.IL>
- Cc: Dani Ilan <standard@NetVision.net.il>, Stefan Fuchs <sf@bezeq.co.il>, Israel Ervin Gidali <gidali@vnet.ibm.com>, Nati Guedalia <natig@ncc.co.il>, Gil Mor <gilmor@microsoft.com>, Mati ALLOUCHE <matia@vnet.ibm.com>, Moshe Shalom <moshe_shalom@easx.co.il>, Yevgenia Palanker <pal@actcom.co.il>, Doron Shikmoni <P85025@VM.BIU.AC.IL>, "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>, Glenn Adams <glenn@spyglass.com>, www-html@w3.org, Khaled Sherif <sherifk@caivm1.vnet.ibm.com>, Jeff Rosenschein <jeffr@accentsoft.com>, Chris Wendt <christw@microsoft.com>, John McConnell <johnmcco@microsoft.com>, Yaniv Feinberg <yanivf@microsoft.com>, Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>, Uri Postavsky <urip@rtlsoft.com>, Uzzi Ornan <ORNAN@cs.technion.ac.il>, Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "Mark H. David" <mhd@WORLD.STD.COM>, Edward Resnick <Edward.Resnick@Israel.Sun.COM>, ILAN Hebrew List <ilan-h@taunivm.tau.ac.il>, Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>
À 08:00 15-06-97 +0200, David Rashty +972-2-6584848 a écrit : >If the standard will not allows using >Visual ordering (ISO-8859-8) as a possibility it mean that only in Israel, >people that have a Hebrew Version of the operating system will be able to >view this pages. It is simply not true that one needs a Hebrew OS to view Hebrew HTML in implicit order. See http://www.alis.com/ for a counterexample that works on all versions of Windows. Other browsers already have this platform-independence for simpler charsets (not involving BIDI), and may soon have it for BIDI scripts as well. Platform-independence is also the thrust of Java, which will have BIDI support in the next release. I don't think it would be wise at this time to enshrine Visual as a standard way of doing the wrong thing. -- François Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com> Alis Technologies Inc., Montréal Tél : +1 (514) 747-2547 Fax : +1 (514) 747-2561
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