Need support for dirname attribute – FIXED !
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- Dominant language
- HTML
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- 11
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Description
This issue is common to all RTL scripts.
When strings are passed around, some applications don't receive or use information about the appropriate base direction to use for those strings when they are rendered as part of a page.
This can lead to text being incorrectly aligned, and to text within a sentence or paragraph being incorrectly ordered. Some of this can be addressed by using heuristics to detect the direction first-strongly directional character in the string, but some strings can fail such heuristics.
HTML's dirname attribute, which is supposed to pass information with form data about direction of the text isn't fully interoperable across major browser engines.
FIXED !
This gap is now fixed. For details, see this GitHub issue.
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue states that the dirname interoperability gap is fixed and points to w3c/alreq#216 for details. No repository files, tests, or local entry points are named, so verify that referenced issue before considering any work; done would require confirming whether afrlreq still has an unresolved requirement.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 5/100