- From: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:21:32 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
Jonny Axelsson wrote: > [...] > And as for BDO, what is the point with the BDO element, given that > every > applicable element, in particular SPAN, has a DIR attribute? BDO is used when the text has already been placed in visual order; for example, given the following piece of right-to-left text: THGIR, since the implicit direction of the characters is right to left, the normal result from the bidirectionality algorithm is to perform implicit reordering. In this case that is inappropriate because this task has already bveen performed, so a bidi-override is needed. However, I am perhaps of the view that bidirectionality is better suited to style sheets anyway, since it is concerned with the visual rendering of documents, not their structure, and perhaps dir and BDO should be deprecated for the direction and unicode-bidi properties. ===== ---------------------------------------------------------- >From Matthew Brealey (http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet (for law)or http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet/WEBFRAME.HTM (for CSS)) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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