Writing (and reading) mail messages in Hebrew is one example that pops
to mind.
The composer may be another.
[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 only parameter 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 the base 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).
>
>Shalom (Regards), Mati
> Bidi Architect
> Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
> IBM Israel
> Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333
>Mobile: +972 52 554160
>
>
>
>Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/07/2001 21:54:43
>
>Please respond to Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>To: Matitiahu Allouche/Israel/IBM@IBMIL
>cc: Linux-IL Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: mozilla 0.9.2
>
>On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>It did not take so long to write the code, but it took *a looonnng time*
>>
>to
>
>>push it through the slow wheels of the Mozilla organization, until the
>>
>code
>
>>was integrated into the regular sources and built in the regular builds
>>(some of it is not yet there, but I will not tell you what). Some of the
>>process involves code reviews and enhancements to better blend into
>>Mozilla's design or coding rules, which is rather positive, and
>>
>beneficial
>
>>in the long run.
>>
>
>I'm not sure that this is what you refer to, but one of the things I find
>really lacking is the bidi controls in the user interface. It was availble
>in previous bidi-mozilla versions, IIRC, but it is not availble now.
>
>Is it availble but disabled (if so: how can I enable it?)
>If not: any other way to control at least the base direction of a page at
>runtime?
>
>--
>Tzafrir Cohen
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
>
>
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