222232 - [MIDAS] implement DirRTL/LTR and BlockDirRTL/LTR in midas

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Tsahi Asher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

although these commands are not described in msdn's specification
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/commandids.asp)one
could guess their meaning from their name. it looks to me that DirRTL/LTR will
set RTL or LTR direction to the whole text, and BlockDirRTL/LTR will set RTL/LTR
direction to a block within the text, like a paragraph or a table cell.

one way or another, there is a need to allow the user to set the text
directionality, so midas can be used in RTL applications too, like forums etc.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html
2. look for a command to set text directionality


Actual Results:  
you find none

Expected Results:  
midas should have a command to set text directionality.

Comment 1

[Tsahi Asher]

the msdn link messed up. here it is again:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/commandids.asp

Comment 2

[Prognathous]

I believe that OS and Hardware should both be set to All.

Prog.

Comment 3

[Tsahi Asher]

you're right.

Comment 4

[Tsahi Asher]

you can add to that InlineDirLTR/RTL, which, i assume, give LTR/RTL override to
text inside an element, like <span dir="rtl"> </span> inside a generaly LTR
paragraph.

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

This will help many Israeli sites to move from IE-only code to cross-browser code.

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).

Comment 7

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.