On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:12:19 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:03:21 +0200, Steven Pemberton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So when you are building a language with Modularization, you have to
explicitely state that you are supporting bi-directional text. All W3C
family-members of XHTML do this.
Given that the feature is also available in some form in Unicode this
doesn't make much sense to me. I also don't really understand why such a
feature should be optional.
It's up to the language designer. It's not required or disallowed by the
modules.
We feel that just because the DOM includes an attribute on an element,
that doesn't automatically imply it should be exposed in the markup.
There are many things in the DOM that are not.
When you serialize the DOM back to markup this creates problems.
So why would you want to have <br dir="rtl"/>? Just because it's in the
DOM doesn't mean it makes sense. By the way, this is not a new invention.
dir has never been on these elements!
But in any case, as I said in my earlier email, it is not the aim of
this revision of Modularization to change the markup languages using
it, even if we felt it was a good idea to add dir to the above elements.
target="" is one thing which has been added, I don't really see why this
can't be considered.
I suspect you are confused about what Modularization is. Nothing has
changed with respect to target in Modularization. It is being added to
some markup languages that use Modularization, but that is up to those
languages, not to Modularization.
Modularization is like a programming language library. It is a collection
of modules you might like to use in a markup language. To define a
language you say:
My language consists of modules A+B+C
and you're done.
If the designer now wants to add target to the langauge, it becomes:
My language consists of modules A+B+C+target
However, if we changed the modules, then *existing* languages would change
without the designers having any say in the matter. That is why we said in
the last call announcement:
"Since the main purpose of this version is to add support for XML Schemas,
comments on the particular structure of modules are out of scope, since it
is a requirement that existing drivers continue to work."
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2006JulSep/0003.html
This is why your current comments cannot be adopted for this version of
Mosularization.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Steven
