- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:53:23 -0800
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:11 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> > wrote: >> >> On 01/15/2015 08:44 AM, Glenn Adams wrote: >>> >>> >>> And why? >>> >>> >>> i can see it being reasonable to say that "in the context of text >>> alignment, left (right) is interpreted as start (end) in >>> vertical writing modes" but i don't believe it reasonable to say that >>> "left means right" in a bidi horizontal writing mode >> >> >> Which never happens. What are you talking about? > > > i'm speaking of the potential to interpret 'left' as 'start', which in the > case of a horizontal WM ltr block would mean 'right'; if this interpretation > is never admitted, then there is less of a problem than I had suspected 'left' never means 'start'. It means either "left" or "line-left". "line-left" and "start" are not synonymous. ~TJ
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