On Jul 11, 2009, at 08:19 , Richard Ishida wrote:
I didn't review the Widgets spec myself (we have so much to cover that we have to share things around), but I'm starting to think maybe I should try to find the time, if I can. For example, I noticed that the its:dir attribute can be used on the name, author, and description elements, but I would have expected that for a widget in Persian, say, you'd just set the attribute on the widget element and it should take care of all those without the author having to separately and laboriously markup them up. (Think about HTML - you put dir on the html element, not on every p, div, list, etc.) You'd only need to use dir on name, author, span, etc if you need to *change* the base direction. (We had a similar gap in SVG Tiny markup before Xmas, which they fixed as soon as we pointed it out to them.)
Isn't that something that the ITS specification says (sorry, haven't read it in a while)? Just saying that its:dir support is required should imply that it is available on any element.
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