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Bug 10822 - i18n comment 18 : on an OS that has a widespread UI convention for setting direction, user agent should support it on input and textarea elements
Summary: i18n comment 18 : on an OS that has a widespread UI convention for setting di...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-09-29 12:59 UTC by i18n bidi group
Modified: 2011-01-22 20:36 UTC (History)
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Description i18n bidi group 2010-09-29 12:59:20 UTC 
Comment from the i18n review of:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Comment 18
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: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/#set-direction [http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#set-direction]
. Here is the proposal made there:

The HTML specification should recommended that on an OS that has a widespread convention for setting direction (such as CTRL + LEFT SHIFT for LTR and CTRL + RIGHT SHIFT for RTL on Windows), the user agent should support that convention on input and textarea elements (although it may provide other methods too).
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-09-29 16:22:57 UTC 
If this is added, it should probably also apply to contentEditable areas. Though the spec usually stays out of specific UI recommendations.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-05 00:49:51 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: User agents are naturally incentivised to follow platform conventions, but should not be required to do so, since they may have perfectly good reasons for doing entirely different things. It's out of scope of the specification to require behaviour that is not a factor for interoperability.