Re: Bug 27475 (bdo comment) [I18N-ACTION-462]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Phillips, Addison wrote:
> 
> I was tasked by the I18N WG with "follow up with editors on bdo/bdi/etc. 
> and prepare an example for consideration by the wg to send them" on the 
> assumption that my last comment on this bug had merit.
> 
> There are a few basic things I wanted to touch base with you on:
> 
> 1. Do you think it would be reasonable to add an informative reference 
> to our guidelines document for writing bidi to the @dir section (3.2.5.6 
> in the 5.0 doc) and bdo (4.5.27) (and possibly elsewhere)? That document 
> is not in TR space: it lives at [2]. Would you need/want us to publish 
> it in Note form to reference it?
> 
> 2. When I search the Web I find that many page authors are confused 
> about what <bdo> specifically does and when it should be used. <bdo> is 
> almost never what the author needs. Do you think a health warning/usage 
> example in the section on <bdo> would be appropriate? I'm thinking we 
> could specifically use some form of the example at [3] with a note such 
> as "The <bdo> element is only useful in situations where you want to 
> completely override the normal Unicode bi-directional processing. Such 
> situations are rare. For example..."
> 
> 3. The example at the end of the current @dir section illustrates 
> dir=auto and the <bdi> element (which are useful illustrations), but not 
> the use of tight-wrapping with spans of @dir (the current best 
> practice). We might propose a suggested replacement if we can come up 
> with one that makes sense, but I haven't finished that part of my action 
> item yet.

All sounds reasonable to me. We have a lot of issues in our queue right 
now for HTML so I don't know when we'll get to it, but I've been bringing 
on some co-editors to help out so hopefully that will make it quicker.

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