RE: Closure of tabular-data-model issues

Sorry for coming back to the party so late in the process.

I have reviewed issues 477, 478 and 479, which are related to bidi, and I think that the handling of bidi is good.
Two remarks:

1. About inheritance of the text direction annotation by column or cells, it might be worth specifying that if the parent's annotation is "auto", what is inherited is "auto" and not the resolved value of the table direction (for columns) or text direction (for cells) of the parent (which is either "ltr" or "rtl").

2. I have stated that the hierarchy of inheritance should be table > column > cell, and JeniT agreed on the principle in his comment dated July 2. However, section 4.5 "Cells" says:
[quote]
text direction — which direction the text within the cell should be displayed, as described in section 6.5.1 Bidirectional Tables; the value of this annotation may be derived from the table direction annotation on the table, if the textDirection property is set to inherit (the default).
[end of quote]
As far as I understand, this means that there is no possibility to make all cells in a certain column default to text direction = ltr and the cells in another column default to text direction = rtl. This is a very frequent use case.
This can be cured by changing the text above to:
[changed text]
text direction — which direction the text within the cell should be displayed, as described in section 6.5.1 Bidirectional Tables; the value of this annotation may be derived from the text direction of the containing column if the textDirection property is set to inherit (the default), which itself may be derived from the table direction annotation on the table (see section 4.3 "Columns").
[end of changed text]

Another remark: it seems to me that nothing has been done on account of issue 463 (language metadata elsewhere than for columns), not even rejecting the suggestion to allow a language declaration at the table level and at the cell level (I think that it is difficult to justify having a language declaration at the row level).

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Shalom (Regards),  Mati


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:16 PM
To: www International
Subject: Closure of tabular-data-model issues

the following issues all look good to close to me, and i propose to do so if i don't receive any objections by monday 21 september. The group to whom the comments were sent worked with us on the resolution, and has now moved their spec to CR.


tabular-data-model
479 Marking tables as right-to-left in the media type 2015-06-16
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/479
478 determining cell text direction 2015-06-16
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/478
477 default value of direction 2015-06-16
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/477
463 Language metadata elsewhere than for columns 2015-04-24
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/463
462 Human readable formats for numeric percentages 2015-04-24
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/462


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cheers,
ri

Received on Sunday, 20 September 2015 16:15:14 UTC