On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It did not take much time for Tzafrir to discover one of the main missing
> features. This is due to strong opposition from the people responsible for
> UI (user interface) in the Mozilla organization, who resist almost any
> change to the UI. The onlyparameter that you can currently change is the
> charset (using View/Character Coding): choosing Hebrew (Windows-1255) or
> Visual Hebrew (ISO-8859-8) lets you alternate between visual and logical
> Hebrew. There is no currently available option to set thebase direction
> of a page, and this is the first addition that we are lobbying for (you are
> invited to add your voice on the Mozilla newsgroups).
>
> However, I don't quite understand why this feature is so much needed.
> Visual pages are always LTR (has anybody any example of an RTL visual
> page)? And logical pages generally are generated by authors with some Bidi
> awareness, or at least Bidi-aware tools, and should have the direction
> attribute properly specified. So where do you need to override the page
> native direction? URLs are welcome (send to me privately if you don't want
> to burden this list with non Linux-specific stuff).
Just the quick rational, since this is really not the place:
* An HTML page does define the base direction. What if the page author got
it wrong?
* For a text document you don't even have that. For instance: What is the
base direction of a mail message or a newsgroup message (encoded as either
iso8859-8-i or utf-8 )?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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