Re: Does shr support HTML directional attributes?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I've just got a (spam) mail in Arabic whose portions were displayed
> left-aligned, which is not what the HTML payload wanted (it used
> dir=RTL and style='margin-right:.5in;text-align:right...'), which
> AFAIU should have caused the text rendered as right-to-left paragraph.
>
> Does shr support these attributes?

Nope; shr doesn't support the "dir" attribute in elements.  I think
there used to be support for the text-align style attribute in <td>
cells, but looking at shr.el now, that seems to have been lost during
the variable-width font rewrite.

shr is a pretty minimal HTML renderer -- it tries to be fast enough for
most web pages, but it doesn't try very hard to be an accurate HTML
renderer.  There's tons of stuff it doesn't support, because it'd be too
slow.  If you find a way to support those two elements without affecting
the general rendering speed, please go ahead and add support for them.

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