- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:33:01 +0200
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "'WWW International'" <www-international@w3.org>
Also sprach fantasai:
> (The 'direction' property does not actually belong in CSS: it exists
> in CSS in order to allow the HTML 'dir' attribute's functionality
> for raw XML documents. This use case probably should have been
> addressed with an xml:dir attribute rather than with CSS.)
I agree that users and authors probably never should use the
'direction' property, but I disagree that it doesn't belong in CSS.
It's used in the default style sheet for HTML [1]; a formatter needs
to know the direction of the text in order to display it and CSS is a
handy way to convey that information. Likewise, I think it would have
been better to convey link information through CSS than to create
xlink:href. But that's a different story.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/sample.html
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 25 October 2010 18:33:50 UTC