- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:20:21 +0800
- To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- CC: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
(11/07/21 18:00), Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: > I think that :dir(lrtr|rtl) will be very useful, great stuff! > > Just one purely editorial comment on the draft spec > (http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/#dir-pseudo): > >> The :dir() pseudo-class allows the author to write selectors that represent >> an element based on its directionality as determined by the document language > I find "document language" misleading. "Language" makes one think of > the lang attribute. And "document language" makes me think of <html > lang="...">. I do not have great alternatives, though... Perhaps > something like "as determined in the document by means other than > style"? Well, "document language" is a defined term in CSS21[1]. It would be nice if every occurrence of this term is cross-linked to that part but that doesn't seem to be the style used in these CSS specs. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#doclanguage Kenny
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