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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 14 April 2008 07:32 UTC

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:32:27 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.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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