Gabriel Wicke wrote:
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