That's not so sure, there are legacy browsers using an embedded mode for
bdi as they don't implement the isolation mode (the older version of the
BiDi algorithm).
2017-07-17 4:42 GMT+02:00 Martin J. Dürst <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>:
> On 2017/07/17 04:28, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
>
> The isolation mode is also the one strongly recommended by default for
>> <bdi> elements in HTML,
>>
>
> Well, that's for sure, because the "i" in "bdi" stands for "isolation",
> and the element was newly created for the isolation mode.
>
> Regards, Martin.
>
>
> but legacy browsers still don't have support for
>> isolation mode and were mapping <bdi> element by default using the legacy
>> embedding mode which has such caveats. So the specification is correct, it
>> reproduces the legacy behavior as it was initially defined (and did not
>> change) for RLE/PDF.
>>
>
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