Hi Thierry
all I'm saying is that without unicode-bidi property, images are
nuetral. With unicode-bidi set to "embed" or "bidi-override" images are
strong.
Added to that you may also have any UI mirroring built into the browser
in question, thrown into the mix.
And your image tags aren't language neutral. They have alt tags with
English text. I would assume that that would create a LTR embedding
level for the images, and whitespace between images would inherit
appropraite directionality. BUt as to what each browser actually does ...
Compare
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/test/with_unicode-bidi_en.html and
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/test/without_unicode-bidi_en.html
with
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/test/with_unicode-bidi_ar.html and
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/test/without_unicode-bidi_ar.html
For the Arabic pages, IE and Firefox behave the same, and display as
expected. This is the normal case for RTL display.
For your English example, IE and Firefox exhibit variant behaviour. Not
surprising since its an artificial example unlikely to be seen in real
life situations. Although begs the question as to what would happen in a
fully bilingual environment.
I'd assuem form the beaviour in English tests, that Firefox treats teh
directionality of the alt tag as significant, while IE just uses UI
mirroring principles for the images when the list-items have a status of
embedded. Although I could be reading more into this than there is.
You can build a case to say that either browser is displaying the page
correctly, depending on what you think the page should display as.
Andrew
Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Thierry Koblentz writes:
Regardless of the script used, without "unicode-bidi", one does get
different results across browsers .
In my example, FF keeps all lists LTR while IE shows the second one
RTL
and you you'll get different results again if you used Arabic
characters in the example. To create a test page in Latin script to
test RTL properties is problematic. For instance you need
"unicode-bidi", which wouldn't be necessary in a purely Arabic or
Hebrew page.
Andrew,
I'm not saying that different scripts won't add an additional level of
embedding, I'm just saying that we *already* have a difference across
browser using images *only* (no script) and *without* the use of
"unicode-bidi".
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Regards,
Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com
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