On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:13:10PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Anybody wants to try to build this and (hopefully) give us a build of
> > mozilla with logical hebrew support for linux?
>
> The other day I asked Mike Kaply (mkaply on irc.mozila.org #mozilla)
> from IBM to pack those sources. After 39MB of annoying download, the
> whole thing was broken (Windows CR-LF all around?).
> I told him about it and asked to repackage a working thing again.
>
> As to the attitude of the Mozilla people towards the BiDi work,
> they'll much sooner include exotic things like MathML than standard
> HTML 4.0 features such as BiDi. It's simply on nobody's priorities
> there in the US.
It is in the top of _our_ priority lists.If the mozilla folks won't do
anything for the inclusion of this code, the least we should do is help
maintaining it:
supply builds (as building mozilla isn't that easy) and report bugs.
(Actually, a year ago it was on the top of my priorities list. But now
that there is a browser for linux that supports logical hebrew, bidi
mozilla is slowly losing priority)
> I wonder if we should start a major Bugzilla issue
> and make everyone vote for it, or maybe just flood Bugzilla with
> bugs such as "msn.co.il displays reversed" ?
And better add there "mozilla is not HTML 4.0 compatible". HTML 4.0
spesifies support for bidirectional languages. IIRC this is one of the
only items (perhaps even the only item) that prevents from calling mozilla
"HTML 4.0 compatible".
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Tzafrir Cohen
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