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- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:41:25 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-25: Rendering bidi without a style sheet [HTML5] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/25 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: HTML5 3.2.3.5 The dir attribute http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/elements.html#the-dir-attribute WG Approved: Yes "The processing of this attribute depends on the presentation layer. For example, CSS 2.1 defines a mapping from this attribute to the CSS 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties, and defines rendering in terms of those properties." We think that HTML 5, like HTML 4, should be able to render bidirectional text without a style sheet. It would break backwards compatibility to remove the ability of a browser to do so without CSS. Therefore in our opinion, HTML 5 has to describe the expected behavior in at least the detail of HTML 4 rather than leave it up to the "presentation layer". Note that we do not want to impose a requirement on implementations of HTML 5 to implement CSS, but you could describe the expected behaviour by just referencing CSS and defining a default stylesheet fragment. This would just mean that an HTML 5 implementation has to make things behave as if it used this CSS default stylesheet fragment. IMPORTANT: This issue is being moved from our old review tracking system to the new tracker system. THIS ISSUE HAS ALREADY BEEN CLOSED. For mail relating to this issue, see: http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=Rendering%20bidi%20without%20a%20style%20sheet%20&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&index-grp=Member__FULL+Public__FULL&index-type=t&type-index=public-i18n-core%40w3.org&resultsperpage=20&sortby=date
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