- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:32:46 -0500
- To: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
Martin Duerst wrote: > > Of course, the Atom way is not the only way of doing this; > it would be great if there were less overhead (e.g. not > requiring the <div> element). It might also be helpful > if the dir attribute can be inherited from an overall > element (e.g. for a feed that's all right-to-left (rtl). > But inheriting an attribute from outside into the namespace > it actually belongs may not be the best idea for robustness. The /attribute/ doesn't get inherited: only its effect does. So for example, in a CSS-based processor, the attribute sets a 'direction' property whose value gets inherited. The attribute itself only appears in the element on which it was specified. ~fantasai
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