> Yes.. but they're not asking those processors to do anything more than > what is currently already required.
If developers of aggregators want to use dir="", I will be fine. But the use of dir="" in normal feed should be strongly discouraged... feed authors should specify the text direction... > This is a spec bug. I had meant to change that to: > > ... user agents MAY perform direction guessing in documents where the > base direction is unspecified but they SHOULD NOT do so when a "dir" > attribute value of "ltr" or "rtl" is provided. > > This will allow user agents to apply whatever heuristics it wants to > determine the base directionality where the dir is unspecified. > > I will fix this in another iteration. "in elements" may be better than "in documents" if direction guessing is allowed when dir="" is used in an element and inherited. >> PS: In the example above, if the second entry comes from a source feed that >> does not contain any "xml:lang" attribute or "dir", aggregators have to >> generate xml:lang=""[1][2] and dir="" together. (<entry xml:lang="" >> dir=""></entry>). It is very problematic if only dir="" is generated. >> > > Yep. Not sure if this needs to be discussed in this doc, however. Um... if your draft has a section called "Relation with the xml:lang attribute", then that should be discussed. By the way, dir="default" or dir="unknown" seems clearer than dir="". Franklin
