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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="smcv"
+ ip="81.100.115.242"
+ subject="comment 9"
+ date="2014-09-21T12:41:56Z"
+ content="""
+[Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts](http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/)
+might be useful reading.
+
+In [modern browsers](http://caniuse.com/css-sel2) (i.e. not IE6) it
+should be possible to make CSS conditional on any attribute, not
+just class, so you could maybe do something like this:
+
+ /* ikiwiki's existing CSS */
+ .sidebar {
+ float: right;
+ margin-left: 4px;
+ }
+
+ /* new */
+ html[dir=\"rtl\"] .sidebar {
+ float: left;
+ margin-left: 0px;
+ margin-right: 4px;
+ }
+
+If you contributed a patch for `style.css` to make markup like this
+\"just work\", I'd be happy to review it. (`notebox` could use the
+same technique).
+"""]]