- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:35:26 -0800
- To: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- CC: Adil Allawi <adil@diwan.com>, ntounsi@emi.ac.ma, Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
On 11/26/2009 10:54 PM, Simon Montagu wrote: > > I assume your Gecko example is using a very recent version of Gecko, > such as a nightly build or a beta of Firefox 3.6? I fixed this issue > only a few months ago. > > The HTML standard does specify what to do in this case, see > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#style-bidi: > > "When a block element that does not have a dir attribute is transformed > to the style of an inline element by a style sheet, the resulting > presentation should be equivalent, in terms of bidirectional formatting, > to the formatting obtained by explicitly adding a dir attribute > (assigned the inherited value) to the transformed element." > > In practice, however, since browsers are not consistent, authors will > have to use CSS properties to achieve the expected results. Does this mean applying "unicode-bidi: embed" to all block-level elements? Because that seems like it fulfill those requirements. ~fantasai
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