On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:26 +0100, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
The current "external.png" implementation is horribly broken in languages that are right to left like Farsi, Hebrew, Arabic. So let's create a "pdf icon" only when the implementation of the external.png is fixed. Let's not add more garbage in a manner that we know is broken.
The implementation is simply following the CSS standards, but browsers unfortunately tend to be more broken in RTL languages. The solution usually is to hide the style from known-as-broken browsers while allowing more standard-conform ones to render the extra hint. This is called forward compatibility.