Reminder: For review: Update to What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup

I'd like to publish this update before the end of this week, so if you 
have any comments, please send in the next two days.

Thanks,
RI


On 17/01/2014 17:04, Richard Ishida wrote:
> An updated version of What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and
> inline markup[1] is out for wide review. We are looking for comments
> over the next two weeks. After the review period is over, this content
> will be copied to the same location as the current version of What you
> need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup[2] and the URL
> of the updated version will cease to exist.
>
> The update rewrites the article to reflect the recent changes in bidi
> markup in the HTML5 specification.
>
> Technically speaking, the main change is that the dir attribute now
> isolates text by default with respect to the bidi algorithm. Isolation
> as a default is the recommendation of the Unicode Standard as of version
> 6.3.
>
>  From a less technical point of view, the main advantages to the update
> are that the new methods introduced here reduce the need to use a new
> approach when the direction of content is known, and therefore makes for
> a much simpler transition for both content authors and browser
> developers to support the advances in the handling of bidirectional text
> content. At the same time, these approaches have good results for
> existing legacy content.
>
> Please send comments to www-international@w3.org and start the subject
> line with [inline bidi update].
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/update
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/
>
>

Received on Monday, 3 February 2014 16:27:20 UTC