- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:43:21 +1100
- To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- CC: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
On 16/12/2010 4:01 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > On 16/12/2010 9:11 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: [snip] >> Further down in the same major section, the definition of >> unicode-bidi:plaintext<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#unicode-bidi> >> >> states: >> >> "For the purposes of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, the base >> directionality of each "paragraph" for which the element is the >> containing >> block element is determined not by the element's computed ‘direction’ as >> usual, but by following rules P1, P2, and P3 of the Unicode bidirectional >> algorithm." > > > Above I see "which the element." I have know idea what element is being > referred to here. This paragraph also seems to suggest an added meaning > of a containing block. What is a containing block element? Should this read *containing block-level element*? I was thinking that it was referring to the CSS term, *containing block*. -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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