On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, L. David Baron wrote: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas.html#text > has the following bullet point: > # Form a hypothetical infinitely wide CSS line box containing a > # single inline box containing the text text, with all the > # properties at their initial values except the 'font' property of > # the inline element set to font and the 'direction' property of > # the inline element set to the 'direction' property of the canvas > # element. [CSS] > > This should describe what to do if the canvas element is not in a > document (and therefore has no 'direction'). > > It should probably fall back to 'ltr' as a last resort. > > However, as an intermediate step, it might be worth falling back to > the direction property of the root element (if present) of the > canvas element's ownerDocument.
I've made it depend on the 'dir' attribute of the <cavnas> element if the CSS property doesn't have a defined computed value. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
