On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:10 AM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > In Gecko it's also implemented through CSS inheritance, but it's not > exposed to Web content as a CSS property. (Internally it's > '-x-lang', but that name isn't exposed.) > > We use the language for: > * font selection > * language-specific text-transform behavior > * hyphenation (which doesn't work unless it's explicitly specified, > as required by http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#hyphens-property )
It seems my earlier point about inheritance of text direction remains. Base URLs however are obsolete as only Gecko implements xml:base. If this is implemented through CSS, does it make sense to expose it through the DOM? -- http://annevankesteren.nl/