- From: David Rashty +972-2-6584848 <RASHTY@WWW4.HUJI.AC.IL>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 8:05 +0200
- To: Doron Shikmoni <P85025@VM.BIU.AC.IL>, 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>, Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, 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>
> You should note that leaving Visual ordering as "non-standard current > practice" is not making current implementations "illegal" or otherwise > unusable. Visual ordering has never been "standard" in any specification, According to RCF 1555/6 which deal with Email messages in Hebrew, Visual order is one of the standard ways to display Hebrew. and as adpoted it used in Electronic mail as the standard. > We all realize that Visual ordering of bidirectional text will stay with > us for a considerable amount of time. At the same time we need to recognize > that it is an interim solution, and by no means a final goal. I agree that it is not the final goal. but I haven't heard any solution to the problem which arise from the fact that most of the users that does not have an OS that support Logical will not be able to view this pages. non of the major browser supports BIDI regardless of the OS. > Sincerely Yours, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | David Rashty Rashty@www.huji.ac.il __o | | Computation Center Bitnet: rashty@hujivms _ \<,_ | | The Hebrew University Phone: +972-2-6584397 Weebbb.. (_)/ (_) | | Givat-Ram Campus Fax: +972-2-6527349 | | Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL. Visit our Webs at | | WWW.HUJI.AC.IL | | URL http://www.huji.ac.il/rashty | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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