https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31817
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Bug #: 31817
Summary: The <bdi> tag is sanitized
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Parser
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Blocks: 745
Classification: Unclassified
HTML5 has several new features designed to help web designers create pages that
show RTL text properly. Among them is the new <bdi> element. It stands for
"bi-directional isolation", and it basically means that the text inside it
doesn't mix up with adjacent punctuation marks and numbers, which have
ambiguous directionality properties.
When it will be widely supported in browsers, this element will become very
useful in Wikimedia projects. Probably the most common use case for it is
showing the left-to-right name in an article about a person in a right-to-left
Wikipedia; this name is usually written in the opening paragraph and adjacent
to the birth date, which consists of numbers that get mixed up because of the
bidi algorithm. Currently it is solved by using Unicode control characters
(RLM), <bdi> is a more elegant solution.
This tag is currently sanitized, so it is impossible to use it in MediaWiki
pages. It shouldn't be sanitized. To do this, i suppose that it should be added
to htmlpairsStatic in includes/Sanitizer.php, but i'm not so familiar with that
class, so maybe something else is needed.
When will it be widely supported in browsers? It was just added to Mozilla, and
note that even the source file name is similar:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6f03f6a821c0
AFAIK, it is also about to be added to Chrome.
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