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Bug 8932 - "The attribute has no defaults" is inconsistent with "otherwise, the element's directionality is the same as its parent element, or 'ltr' if there is no parent element"
Summary: "The attribute has no defaults" is inconsistent with "otherwise, the element'...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-10 10:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:57 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-10 10:03:16 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dir-attribute

Comment:
"The attribute has no defaults" is inconsistent with "otherwise, the element's
directionality is the same as its parent element, or 'ltr' if there is no
parent element"

Posted from: 64.134.222.102
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-16 09:00:07 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Hm, yeah, that was poor wording. I've tried to fix it.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-02-16 09:01:11 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4751.
Check-in comment: Clarify what 'has no defaults' really means.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4750&to=4751