Re: background-position and bidi in CSS 2.1

• From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
• Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:17:25 -0800
• To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
• Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4944CF25.4020505@smontagu.org>

Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 
> Change proposals to section 14.2.1 of CSS 2.1:
> 
> new text:
> 
>   start
>     Equivalent to 'left' when the direction is left-ro-right, and
>     'right' when the direction is right-to-left.

Typo fix: "left-to-right"

>   end
>     Equivalent to 'right' when the direction is right-to-left, and
>     'left' when the direction is right-to-left.

The first "right-to-left" should be "left-to-right".

> 
> and change:
> 
>   <length>
>     A length L aligns the top left corner of the image a distance L to
>     the right of (for horizontal) or below (for vertical) the top left
>     corner of the element's padding box. For example [snip]
> 
> to
> 
>   <length>
>     If the text direction is ltr (resp. rtl), a length L aligns the
>     top left (resp. top right) corner of the image a distance L to
>     the right (resp. left) of (for horizontal) or below (for vertical)
>     the top left (resp. the top right) corner of the element's padding
>     box. For example [snip].
> 
> and I very seriously wonder if same change should not be done to
> <percentage> values, %age should probably apply from top right corner
> instead of top left in rtl.
> 
> </Daniel>
> 

Received on Sunday, 14 December 2008 09:18:09 UTC