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Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 00:33:05
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> wrote 
 a message of 13 lines which said:

I don't find dir="" in the HTML 4.01 spec., 

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2

8.2.2 Inheritance of text direction information
...
When the dir attribute is set for a block-level element, it remains
in effect for the duration of the element and any nested block-level
elements. Setting the dir attribute on a nested element overrides
the inherited value.

The dir="" is probably here to reset the text direction to "I do not
know", something which is impossible in HTML because of the
inheritance.

 
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