Re: [Tiki-devel] Better multilingual styling

Gary Cunningham-Lee <gary_c-39LOpZwlz1/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.tiki.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Specifically, point 2 below. Sorry for not being more clear. So this 
seems to be the same idea: using "start" and "end" instead of "left" and 
"right", to be language-direction neutral.

>
>     Approach
>
> Our approach to building RTL support into Bootstrap comes with two 
> important decisions that impact how we write and use our CSS:
>
> 1.
>
>     *First, we decided to build it with the RTLCSS
>     <https://rtlcss.com/> project.* This gives us some powerful
>     features for managing changes and overrides when moving from LTR
>     to RTL. It also allows us to build two versions of Bootstrap from
>     one codebase.
>
> 2.
>
>     *Second, we’ve renamed a handful of directional classes to adopt a
>     logical properties approach.* Most of you have already interacted
>     with logical properties thanks to our flex utilities—they replace
>     direction properties like |left| and |right| in favor |start| and
>     |end|. That makes the class names and values appropriate for LTR
>     and RTL without any overhead.
>
> For example, instead of |.ml-3| for |margin-left|, use |.ms-3|.
>

On 12/20/2021 8:39 PM, Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please see https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/getting-started/rtl/
>
> -- GAry
>
> On 12/20/2021 8:33 PM, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> During the last. TRM we discussed our options to improve and finalise 
>> the new Unified Admin Backend and one of the things was to have it 
>> compliant with RTL languages.
>>
>> It comes to me that I found more and more cases where I just need to 
>> set a “start” or “end” rule to a property to solve a lot of problems.
>>
>> For exemple;
>> Using text-align: start instead of text-align: left (LTR) or 
>> text-align: right (RTL)
>>
>> I post it here some more people are aware when writing their code.
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bernard
>>
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