Bug 66746 - vertical scrollbar in large document is locale sensitive instead of document directionality sensitive
Summary: vertical scrollbar in large document is locale sensitive instead of document ...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Keywords: rtl
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Reported: 2003-10-28 09:15 UTC by Oded Arbel
Modified: 2010-06-06 19:17 UTC (History)
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Description Oded Arbel 2003-10-28 09:15:10 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.3 
OS:          Linux

When khtml is required to display documents that are too long be displayed in the window, it uses a vertical scroll bar to allow for scrolling the document. this scroll bar is currently always on the right side of the document when the locale is a left-to-right locale and always on the right side if the locale is right-to-left locale.

It would be nice if the scrollbar location would instead be sensitive to the directionality of the document itself (the dir attribute of the <html> or <body> tag) so it would be displayed on the right side if the document has "ltr" directionality and on the left side if the document has "rtl" directionality. 
The current functionality (locale sensitive) can be left untouched in case of default directionality, but I think it would be better to put the scroll bar on the right side in that case as well, regardless of locale setting, as default directionality in HTML implies LTR context.