I have had a number of conversations with i18n experts on the topic and
none have complained about it thus far... which, of course, doesn't mean
that much. I would very much appreciate having folks like Harald,
Martin and Tex weigh in on the issue.
Another comment that has come up is a question about why we can't just
use the W3C ITS spec for this, which is definitely a valid question. I
would definitely appreciate feedback on that issue as well.
When it comes to the rendering of feeds in a UI, dir="" is likely not to
have any significant effect since, as you and others have pointed out,
(x)html has no similar notion and a direction has to be assumed. The
main point of dir="" is to ensure that the original directional context
of an entry is preserved regardless of the specific feed that happens to
contain the entry.
- James
Frank Ellermann wrote:
James M Snell wrote:
My apologies for not getting back to this sooner.
No problem, it's only that the proposal to "rename"
the draft attracted my attention, and after I said
that this is dubious in a "Last Call" thread I read
the text, not only the file name... ;-)
All I know about BiDi issues could be summarized as
"if Harald / Martin / Tex / ... think it works it's
supposed to work". But the acknowledgements in your
draft did not mention anybody I know as BiDi-expert,
that was the point when I started to worry about it.
Apparently 'dir' is strictly binary, "LTR" or "RTL",
and your draft adds a third value "". Maybe this is
a good idea. Or it is a case of "ternary bits", I
can't judge it.
Possibly you could convince me that it's a good idea
by giving an example where dir="ltr" and dir="" make
a difference, and/or by stating that dir="" MUST NOT
be used within the (X)HTML parts of an Atom document,
but actually that's beside the point. What's really
interesting, did any BiDi expert confirm dir="" as a
good idea ? If dir="" is a part of the experiment -
fine, let's see what happens.
Frank
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