in reply to Proposal: Adding to Approved HTML Tags

  1. Why is strike (HTML2) allowed, but s (HTML4) not?
  2. Why are purely presentational elements like i and big allowed, but the important semantic elements abbr acronym address cite dfn kbd q samp var and the universal attributes lang title are still not?
  3. What's the point of offering div and span without allowing the style attribute?
  4. How is posted bi-di text supposed to work without the element bdo and the universal attribute dir?

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Re^2: Proposal: Adding to Approved HTML Tags
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
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Re^2: Proposal: Adding to Approved HTML Tags
by ysth (Canon) on Oct 10, 2004 at 10:00 UTC
    Bi-di text is supposed to just plain work. AIUI, bdo is a kludge for when your data is backward, and if necessary, these characters: 
    ‬POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
‭LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
‮RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE

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    can be used instead.

    Test:
    Normal: My name is יצחק בן אברהם, but I'm not the famous gentleman of that name.
    Reversed w/ override: My name is ‭םהרבא ןב קחצי‬, but I'm not the famous gentleman of that name.

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