Why is HTML4 still used as reference?

[annevk]

If it's actually relevant, that seems like a problem that should be fixed. If it's no longer relevant, it seems better to only reference a single HTML specification throughout.

[tabatkins]

Looks like a legacy reference, can easily be updated.

Location of references:

• https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes-4/#text-direction
• https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes-4/#direction

[tabatkins]

Ping @fantasai

[ewilligers]

• https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes-4/#text-direction

This could link to [[HTML#the-dir-attribute]].

• https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes-4/#direction

I didn't see an obvious equivalent to [[HTML401]], section 11.3.2.1 in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ .

[annevk]

@ewilligers that latter section is https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-dir-attribute, but also shows that the CSS text needs updating as it's referencing something from HTML4 nobody ever implemented.