Closed
Bug 3687
Opened 26 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
the BDO element is not implemented
Categories
(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement, P3)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: cmaximus, Assigned: smontagu)
References
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Details
(Keywords: platform-parity, regression)
On the test page you will see three sentences.
The third sentence should be written from Right To Left.
It is not. It is displayed 'normally' or LTR
To be fair, Nova does not handle this properly, nor does IE4.
This bug is valid for all current (Mar10) builds of Seamonkey.
Reporter | ||
Updated•26 years ago
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QA Contact: 4144 → 4130
Reporter | ||
Comment 1•26 years ago
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setting QAC to myself
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER
nglayout and 5.0 will not be supporting full BIDI layout. So I'm marking this
bug as LATER.
resetting later resolution accidentally removed
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago → 25 years ago
reopen to reassign
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: LATER → ---
I presume BDO ~ BiDi; mkaply is this yours or fixed or ...
Assignee: buster → mkaply
Status: REOPENED → NEW
OS: Mac System 8.5 → All
Comment 8•24 years ago
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Can I get this HTML page on an external server somewhere to test with the
IBMBIDI changes?
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Comment 9•24 years ago
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sorry, the url link was just old; all these tests are of course available outside the firewall.
QA Contact: claudius → petersen
Comment 10•24 years ago
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This bug will be fixed when IBMBIDI is turned on in the build.
Depends on: 75982
Comment 11•23 years ago
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*** Bug 9100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12•23 years ago
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Fixed in current build
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 14•23 years ago
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BDO element is not working on the Mac July 10th branch or trunk builds (2001071005).
http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/html/bdo.html
Third paragraph should flow from right to left but doesn't.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Updated•23 years ago
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Keywords: regression
Comment 15•23 years ago
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cc lchiang
Comment 16•23 years ago
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I think this is Mac-only (actually, it's probably Bidi-unaware-only).
Marking pp.
Keywords: pp
Hardware: All → Macintosh
Comment 17•23 years ago
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Is this element not working only when bi-directional text is turned on?
cc: montse
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Comment 18•23 years ago
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Moving to Bidi component. Should QA change also?
Component: Layout → BiDi Hebrew & Arabic
Comment 19•23 years ago
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any update to this bug? With bi-di support now, can this be fixed soon?
Comment 20•23 years ago
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Montse or Mike - any updates to this?
How often is this element used on web pages?
Comment 21•23 years ago
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There is no work being done on Mac Bidi support right now. I don't believe the
skills exist.
Comment 22•23 years ago
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Per lchiang's request, let me add some comments.
AFAIK, BDO element is used primarily in the following types
of situations.
1. The document contains multilingual text and Bidi Algorithm
will apply to such a text.
2. Under some circumstances, e.g. MIME compliant mail agents might
have already applied RtoL formatting. If the bidi-alorithm is
applied again, this will produce incorrect order.
The web author can retain full control of text directionality with
the BDO element.
I am thinking that the possibility of using BDO in web pages might be
small. For e-mail agents, the situation may not be that uncommon, e.g.
English msgs with Hebrew embedded. So the question to me is that do
we handle Hebrew/English mail messages OK most of the time?
Given that this bug is for Mac only and the fact that the BDO element
is designed to handle a small percentage of cases, I am not sure if fixing this
is of urgent nature.
QA Contact: bsharma → zach
Comment 23•23 years ago
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is this really mac only? If it is how did bug 9100 get duped to this bug?
Comment 24•23 years ago
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Don't know if it's Mac-only, but <bdo> is functional in Mozilla 0.9.5 for win32.
Comment 25•23 years ago
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BDO is not working for me on Mozilla 2001121303 on Windows ME.
Testcase:
http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/html/bdo.html
Actual results:
The third sentence is written from left to right.
Expected results:
The third sentence should be written from right to left. Even though Latin
characters have inherent left-to-right directionality, BDO is supposed to
override it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2.4
8.2.4 Overriding the bidirectional algorithm: the BDO element
dir = LTR | RTL [CI]
This mandatory attribute specifies the base direction of the element's text
content. This direction overrides the inherent directionality of characters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This may be the same as bug 9100.
Comment 26•23 years ago
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change platform to ALL. Looks like a regression. N6.2 is fine on WinNT4J but
trunk build is bad now. reassign to smontagu
Assignee: mkaply → smontagu
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Assignee | ||
Comment 27•23 years ago
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Let's keep this one as mac-only. The all-platform regression is bug 115921,
which dbaron checked in the fix for today.
Hardware: All → Macintosh
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Comment 28•23 years ago
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ftang or zach, can you test
http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/html/bdo.html and
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=61906 on a current Mac
build and close this bug if they appear correctly?
Comment 29•23 years ago
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*** Bug 119130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30•23 years ago
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In the Mac OSX and Mac 0S Classic Jan 30th builds , the bdo test renders
correctly now.
http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/html/bdo.html
Comment 31•23 years ago
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That's good. I wonder which change fixed this. Perhaps the bug can be marked
WFM by the owner unless we know specifically the fix which addressed this. Thanks.
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Comment 32•23 years ago
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This will have been fixed by the fix to bug 116976 and/or bug 116982 (depending
on Mac system).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Component: Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic → Layout: Text
QA Contact: zach → layout.fonts-and-text
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