Hi Richard, Added the example at: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#span
Please see also the examples for the dir attribute: http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#dir Thanks again for all your time and help! On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Richard Ishida <ish...@w3.org> wrote: > [This is a continuation of one part of the > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2010JanMar/0043.html > thread.] > > It addresses the comment: > > [[ 7.16. The span Element > http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-span-element-and-its-attributes > [2] I think the example could be improved by having something inside the span > with punctuation (eg. exclamation mark) or such, and maybe the description > should be in English - otherwise you'd probably want to put the dir on the > widget tag and have English in the span. Should I try to find another example > ? > ]] at http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0907-widgets-pc/ > > > Here's my proposed example (thanks to Aharon Lanin for helping with the > Hebrew). I made up something that might appear in a Hebrew widget, rather > than an English one, since it's a little more realistic. > > <widget > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" > xml:lang="he" dir="rtl"> > <name xml:lang="en">GPS Weather!</name> > <description > יישומון ה-<span dir="rtl" xml:lang="en">GPS Weather!</span> מאפשר לך לבדוק > את מזג האוויר בכל נקודת GPS ברחבי העולם. > </description> > </widget> > > Here's a version ready to drop into HTML (I suggest you copy it as a unit, to > avoid problems with the bidirectional text.) > > <widget > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" > xml:lang="he" dir="rtl"> > <name xml:lang="en">GPS Weather!</name> > <description > יישומון ה-<span dir="rtl" xml:lang="en">GPS > Weather!</span> מאפשר לך לבדוק את מזג האוויר בכל נקודת GPS ברחבי העולם. > </description> > </widget> > -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au