Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-22 Thread Frank Ellermann
James M Snell wrote: My apologies for not getting back to this sooner. No problem, it's only that the proposal to rename the draft attracted my attention, and after I said that this is dubious in a Last Call thread I read the text, not only the file name... ;-) All I know about BiDi issues

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-22 Thread James M Snell
I have had a number of conversations with i18n experts on the topic and none have complained about it thus far... which, of course, doesn't mean that much. I would very much appreciate having folks like Harald, Martin and Tex weigh in on the issue. Another comment that has come up is a

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-21 Thread James M Snell
My apologies for not getting back to this sooner. Comments below. Frank Ellermann wrote: James M Snell wrote: If another version of the draft is needed based on last-call comments, I can make the name change then. Leave it alone, please. Various tools have problems with tracking

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +0200, Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 13 lines which said: I don't find dir= in the HTML 4.01 spec., http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 8.2.2 Inheritance of text direction information ... When the dir attribute

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Ellermann
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: I don't find dir= in the HTML 4.01 spec., http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir=, or is it another SGML oddity I've never before heard of ? The dir= is probably here to reset the text direction to

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 22 lines which said: That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir=, or is it another SGML oddity I've never before heard of ? No, no, you're right, the important point I wanted you to read was

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Atom Bidirectional Attribute ' draft-snell-atompub-bidi-06.txt as an Experimental RFC The name of this draft is a

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-11 Thread Frank Ellermann
James M Snell wrote: If another version of the draft is needed based on last-call comments, I can make the name change then. Leave it alone, please. Various tools have problems with tracking changed names. Changing the name to RFC at some point in time is IMO good enough. I don't find

Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-11 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Atom Bidirectional Attribute ' draft-snell-atompub-bidi-06.txt as an Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action.