- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:44:58 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:14:25 +0200, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote: > But late in 2006 we changed that. We decided that, as long as the author > doesn't set an explicit 'text-align' all elements will be as magic as > the root element. I don't remember the exact arguments (maybe we > expected people to set DIR on BODY instead of HTML?). I think they do. I believe they set 'dir' on elements even further down the tree too. > But a recently published WD of the I18N WG says that both changes were > wrong[3]. Neither the bullet position nor the alignment should depend > on an element's own writing direction. I see the part about the bullet position, but not the alignment (the proposed change would affect a lot more than lists, too, and I couldn't find those cases being mentioned). In fact, Example 10 seems to indicate the opposite - here the third list item is right-aligned. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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