- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:23:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>, www-html@w3.org, 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, fantasai wrote:
> On 07/23/2010 01:35 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, fantasai wrote:
> > >
> > > <selector representing all HTML5 block-level elements> {
> > > display: block; /* I assume you already have this somewhere */
> > > unicode-bidi: embed; /* This is the new rule to add. */
> > > }
> > >
> > > <selector representing all HTML5 list-item elements> {
> > > display: list-item; /* Assumed to exist already */
> > > unicode-bidi: embed; /* This is the new rule to add. */
> > > }
> > >
> > > title, table, tbody, thead, tfoot, tr, td, th {
> > > unicode-bidi: embed;
> > > }
> >
> > This would mean you couldn't have more than about 60 inline<div>s nested
> > inside each other without bidi breaking down. Is that an acceptable risk?
> > It seems like it would be a weird thing to tell authors.
>
> I think it's an acceptable risk. 60 levels of nesting on a block
> element that's been set to "display: inline" seems like a rather
> odd case to hit.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, L. David Baron wrote:
>
> In the case Ian raised, I'd think embedding level would normally
> increment by 2, since there are no directionality changes, and an LTR
> (RTL) embedding bumps the embedding level to the next higher even (odd)
> embedding level.
>
> So bidi would start breaking down inside the 32nd nested <div
> style="display:inline">.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, Gecko has had "div { unicode-bidi: embed; }" in the
> UA stylesheet for about a year now in nightlies and for close to half a
> year in a shipping release (Firefox 3.6). I don't believe we've had a
> single issue reported in that time.
Done:
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5283&to=5284
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