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Bug 25653 - After reading the Authoring Conformance Criteria for bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters, [...]
Summary: After reading the Authoring Conformance Criteria for bidirectional-algorithm ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-05-10 14:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-07-29 21:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-05-10 14:00:18 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#user-agent-conformance-criteria
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#user-agent-conformance-criteria
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
After reading the Authoring Conformance Criteria for bidirectional-algorithm
formatting characters, I was expecting there to be explicit guidance for how
user-agents should handle documents that do not meet the authoring conformance
criteria. I assume user agents should quietly insert enough POP DIRECTIONAL
FORMATTING characters to reset whatever bidi formatting characters are
present, but it would be nice to have that spelled out.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-05-10 15:47:28 UTC
It's in the CSS spec. The section "Requirements relating to the bidirectional algorithm", subsection "User agent conformance criteria", says that the CSS rules regarding bidi are normative, even on UAs that don't support CSS per se.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-07-29 21:44:28 UTC
I'm not sure how to improve this. The two sections are right next to each other.