- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:27:12 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, www-style@w3.org
Out of order replies as issues are resolved. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 20:11, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 1/23/11 10:04 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu >> <mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu>> wrote: >> If that's so, then web authors/developers are unlikely to be depending >> on things other than "the simplest situations". > >> >> >> The behavior of >> text-overflow:ellipsis on lines containing right-to-left text is >> currently undefined. > > This. Web authors/developers writing in _English_ are unlikely to be > depending on things other than "the simplest situations". > > Anyone writing in an RTL language is just screwed, as things stand. It's not > clear to me quite why this is OK for a W3C spec... It's not. I've updated the editor's draft to provided a clearer description of how direction/ltr/rtl interact with text-overflow ellipsis (as well as provided some simple rendering examples), consistent with current Opera and WebKit implementations. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/#text-overflow Thanks, Tantek -- http://tantek.com/ - I made an HTML5 tutorial! http://tantek.com/html5
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