Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

Evan M at Jul 27, 2006, 11:48am EDT

At my goog interview I talked to someone about implementing RTL support in my LJ client. In one box we support entering times via two text boxes, hours and minutes, and when the auto-RTL kicks in for the Hebrew version it gets them backwards (in RTL languages, numbers still go the way we write them). So I had to reverse the boxes when constructing in an RTL language so the toolkit could reverse them again “back to normal”.

In retrospect, a single text box might have been more useful. But I think I was getting overclever with (useless) spin boxes.