Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comment 4
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/
Comment: Please consider allowing two new attribute values for the
\"dir\" attribute: \'rlo\' and \'lro\'for dir. You do not need to remove
the bdo element, but the new values will allow content authors to
proceed to a scenario we described in the ITS 1.0 specification
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#directionality], It will
also provide some additional power to the authors, since they will be
able to attach dir=\"lro\" to a block element.
Could you elaborate on the use case here? Why would this be better than
the <bdo> element? Is the improvement enough to warrant the cost?
I looked at the ITS spec but could not see any reason to encourage authors
to do block-level direction overriding.
I'll note that CSS doesn't allow overrides to cross block-level boundaries.
<div style="direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: override;">
This will be RTL override.
<p>This will remain LTR.</p>
</div>
~fantasai
