From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22786@debbugs.gnu.org, mohamed.hibti@gmail.com
Subject: bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:44:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvqi6td4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn6z5avd.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:56:38 +1100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: mohamed.hibti@gmail.com, 22786@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:56:38 +1100
>
> > So I think for best results we should add support for the remaining
> > bidi directives. Adding support for "dir=auto" in the HTML tag is
> > almost trivial. To support the rest of the directives you need to add
> > bidirectional formatting control characters before and/or around the
> > text that is marked with these directives. (If needed, I can provide
> > the details about the controls you need to insert in each case.)
>
> I think I remember the control characters from past discussions. But is
> the dir attribute used much in practice? I've tried to be very, very
> restrictive in what features I add to the common paths in shr. It's
> already slow enough, and each new line of code in the common paths add
> some slow down. It's death by a thousand cuts. :-) I don't oppose
> adding support for this if it's really used a lot in the wild, but if
> not, I'd rather not.
I don't have any statistics. I would expect it to be used in pages
that show paragraphs of different direction.
> (The "dir" attribute can apply to (almost) any HTML element, so the code
> to detect and react to it would go into `shr-descend', which is called
> once for every single HTML node in the document.)
Can you add its support to the <p> element? I think this will go a
long way towards supporting the majority of use cases.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 22:50 bug#22786: 25.1.50; eww arabic rendering Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 10:16 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 18:18 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 18:24 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-24 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-25 11:08 ` Mohamed Hibti
2016-02-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 5:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-26 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 4:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 2:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 8:55 ` Mohamed HIBTI
2016-02-29 2:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 4:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-29 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 23:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-02 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 0:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-02 17:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-02 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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