On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:47 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
My point is that I do not want something that is
broken. Forward
portability is nonsense when it breaks things. So Firefox and Mozilla
NEED to be on the list of browsers that should not show it. The code
should automagically decide on being right OR left depending on the
language.
The snippet i posted only applies for LTR languages (the html[dir="ltr"]
selector does this), hence avoiding any problems with RTL browser bugs.
As to do we want it. I do not want it as long as
there is no
audience for it. (No IE no Firefox/Mozilla for whom are you doing this ??)
Support in LTR languages is quite good- Opera, Safari,
Gecko(Mozilla/Firefox) all support this. Of course IE doesn't know CSS2
and CSS3 selectors.
If it is as simple as that why not fix the "external" thingie in this
manner, I do not care for it in the first place; using it in relation to
soundfiles that reside in Commons is horrible and wrong. But if it
"must" be, fix it so that the right to left languages do not suffer from
this ugly bug and have a html[dir="rtl" in there as well. When it is
such a good thing to have do not discriminate against languages that you
do not use.
Thanks,
GerardM