- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:25:20 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Hello www-svg, Ian wrote: > The SVG Tiny 1.2 specification says: > > # For bidirectional text, the user agent must support text selection in > # logical order [...] > > This is an inappropriate requirement. Usability testing may discover that > this is not the optimal text selection mechanism, or that providing this > text selection mechanism causes user harm. This requirement is nothing to do with user interface, or the actions that are used to create a text selection, or usability. It concerns the ordering of the characters in the text selection once it has been created. These are required to be in logical order, rather than (for example) visual order, so that if the text selection is pasted it makes sense rather than being garbage. The wording was arrived at in consultation with the I18N WG so we are reluctant to change it, but since you have demonstrated that it is possible to misunderstand its intent, we would consider making it clearer that it is the selected text, not the text selection mechanism, that is being discussed. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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