Re: New test for review: Bidi misc

Martin Duerst wrote:
> At 00:22 04/10/08 +0200, Simon Montagu wrote:
> 
>> Richard Ishida wrote:
>>
>>> I have put together a short test to see whether rtl directionality is 
>>> inherited in the window title bar and tooltips.  Please send any 
>>> comments before I add it formally to the site.
>>> http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-bidi-misc-1
>>> Preliminary results show that my most recent versions of Opera, IE, 
>>> Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape do not correctly display bidi text in 
>>> the window title bar.
>>
>>
>> I don't agree with this part of the test. In my opinion the direction 
>> of text in the browser title bar should depend on the directionality 
>> of the user interface, not the content currently displayed.
> 
> 
> Any reason why? I could understand that if you said that the allignement
> of the text in the title bar should depend on the directionality of
> the user interface.
> 
> The directionality of the text displayed in a browser
> window (or tab) depends on the directionality given by the content
> displayed (the dir attributes in the HTML code). Why should that
> suddenly be different for the title? If the text were an actual
> phrase, rather than just a series of words, that should be even
> more obvious.

My reasoning is similar to David Baron's : since the title is being 
displayed in the context of the window manager, it is natural to read it 
in the directionality of the desktop as a whole, especially since the 
title bar typically contains additional text, e.g.
[bahrain مصر kuwait] - Mozilla.

For the same reason, I question whether Opera really fails the tooltip 
test, since it displays the title preceded by "Title:", thus placing it 
in an overall left-to-right context.

Received on Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:36:51 UTC