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Comment from the i18n review of: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ Comment 12 At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/html5-bidi/ Editorial/substantive: S Tracked by: AL Location in reviewed document: undefined [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html#contents] Comment:The HTML specification should explicitly state that <title> text will be displayed in the <title>'s computed direction. This is a part of the proposals made by the "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML" W3C First Public Working Draft. For a full description of the use cases, please see http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#title-and-dir [http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#title-and-dir] .
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5579. Check-in comment: Try to clarify that <title> directionality affects the use of the title outside the document. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5578&to=5579
The change looks good. It is possible to make it even clearer by inserting the following after "<span>the directionality</span> of that <code>title</code> element": "e.g. as set by the <code>dir</code> attribute on it or an ancestor". It is up to you. Thanks!