Re: [css3-lists] Published as WD!

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:00:43 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin
> <aharon@google.com> wrote:
>>>> 1. For a list-item-position:outside list item, the content of a marker
>>>> is in a separate paragraph for bidi purposes. Its paragraph direction
>>>> is taken from the list container's direction.
>>
>>> The spec seems to be missing details on how this is supposed to work.
>>
>>> The spec didn't have these details, but it does now.
>>
>> I had assumed that this was implied by the spec's statement that the
>> list-item-position:outside list item puts the marker in a "separate
>> marker box". I am glad it has been spelled out.
>
> It's in a separate box that is then absolutely positioned.

I don't see where it says explicitly that this position:marker thing  
counts as a form of absolute positioning. (As an aside, I think it's  
unfortunate that CSS 2.1 uses this term to mean something more than just  
position:absolute.)

> I don't
> know whether that puts it in a separate paragraph for bidi purposes or
> not.

CSS 2.1 and css3-writing-modes say

"User agents that support bidirectional text must apply the Unicode  
bidirectional algorithm to every sequence of inline[-level] boxes  
uninterrupted by a forced (bidi class B) [paragraph] break or block  
boundary."

("-level" only occurs in CSS 2.1, "paragraph" only in css3-writing-modes).

But "block boundary" seems to be undefined. I'm not sure if it makes most  
sense to define it in one place, to address it every time a new box type  
is defined, or a little of both...

-- 
Øyvind Stenhaug
Core Norway, Opera Software ASA

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