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Re: [css-writing-modes][css-scoping] unicode-bidi in Shadow DOM, and possibly other properties?

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:02:11 -0800
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDxiB5GfiSfKSq9mhg4xm5DVnb26DQXbUxSPiYegW90OQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Asmus Freytag (t)" <asmus-inc@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Asmus Freytag (t)
<asmus-inc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/2014 4:34 AM, Koji Ishii wrote:
>> What's more interesting to me is that this section uses dir="i", which
>> is not defined in either HTML spec[3][4].
>
> Just  a guess: "i" would seem a possible abbreviation of "implicit" -- in
> that case "unicode-bidi" is a good substitute.

No, Simon Pieters replied with the answer to this - Koji was
misreading the CSS.  He was looking at the "i" flag, which indicates
that an attribute selector should be case insensitive.

~TJ
Received on Friday, 23 January 2015 02:02:58 UTC

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