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Bug 15739 - Incorrect wording used for flowing content to "the other side" of a float (Issue 273)
Summary: Incorrect wording used for flowing content to "the other side" of a float (Is...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS Level 2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
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Assignee: Bert Bos
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-01-27 14:53 UTC by Anton P
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:53 UTC (History)
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Description Anton P 2012-01-27 14:53:40 UTC 
Reported by Øyvind Stenhaug

This is Issue 273: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-273

9.5 (Floats) says:

   # Any content in the current line before a floated box is reflowed in
   # the same line on the other side of the float.

If we interpret "the other side" as follows:
      Imagine a line of text, where ### is an image:
            One two three ### four five six.
      Now float that image to the left:
            #### One two three four five six.
      Note that the words "One two three" have moved to the *other side*
      of the image.
then the statement in 9.5 is actually wrong for right-floated boxes in LTR or left-floated boxes in RTL.

[Note that the current 9.5 text is different from that quoted in the mailing list posts for this bug, which was changed due to Issue 192 (http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-192).]

Conversation begins: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0027.html (Issue 3)

Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0058.html



Issue 273: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-273

Summary
    Wording incorrect for RTL text next to floats
URL
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Oct/0058.html
Status
    Open. =errata= Deferred to Errata