[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation

[WordPress Trac]

#24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation
----------------------------+------------------
 Reporter:  yoavf           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.7
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
----------------------------+------------------

Comment (by mark-k):

 For the sake of people reading this and are not familiar with rtling I
 want to point out that rtling is many times more then just replacing
 margin-left:10px with margin-right:10px;

 I vote against, this is a good way for developers to keep not testing
 their code in rtl with the excuse of "the tools will handle it". This
 might have been a valid strategy if in theory such a tool might have been
 made to work 100% of the time, but we know there are things that can not,
 or are hard to handle automatically.
 The two biggest problems I can think of right now are background position
 which is designed to be used only in ltr without easy translation for
 anything a little complex to rtl, and fliping images where needed

 In addition there are JS libraries that have no support for rtl directions
 in the HTML when calculation position offsets.

 The most basic step of good QA is code coverage - make sure each line of
 your code is executed in your test. With automatic rtling the developer
 will not test the rtl code, so who will test it? when will the rtl bugs be
 discovered? I think it is a real problem because AFAICT none of the main
 contributors run beta versions in rtl, unless there is someone dedicated
 for that in wordpress.com I'm afraid that rtl bugs will be discovered only
 after the new version was released.

--
Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24977#comment:7>
WordPress Trac <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress blogging software