Explainer for visual order caret navigation in bidi text#1304
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Chromium currently uses logical (DOM-order) caret movement, which causes the caret to jump unpredictably at bidi boundaries. This explainer proposes switching to visual caret movement - Left always moves left, Right always moves right. The feature will be gated behind the BidiVisualOrderCaretNavigation feature flag.
This aligns Chromium with Firefox and Safari, which already default to visual caret movement.