James M Snell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the example, I am not sure what the feed author wants. So far there
are only two directionalities allowed, left-to-right and right-to-left.
In the example, the directionality of atom:entry is "rtl", there is no
reason for the author to reset the directionality with an empty string.
He should either change the directionality to "ltr" in atom:content or
keep "rtl" by not using any "dir" attribute in atom:content.
Fair enough. Removing dir="" requires that the feed publisher always
explicitly set the direction. It simplifies processing and helps to
eliminate guessing. Those are compelling enough reasons. In the next
iteration I'll remove the blank value.
What would a planet feed do when aggregating content from other feeds that
may not have explicit directionality? If I'm understanding things correctly,
you would lose the ability to use the dir attribute on the root of the feed,
because there would be no way of overriding it for feed items whose
directionality was unknown.
Not that that's the end of the world. I just want to be sure that you
realise you'd be losing that functionality.
Regards
James
