> Cars aren't right hand drive in arabic speaking countries, things like scissors are still made predominantly for right handed people. The cursor keys are on t

> Cars aren't right hand drive in arabic speaking countries, things like scissors are still made predominantly for right handed people. The cursor keys are on the right hand side of the keyboard, and so on. None of these deal with text alignment problems, I guess. > Why would you swap the navigation of a website from the left to the right side Because text with alignment is part of the UI; perhaps it’s better if the text flow and UI flow match. > Personally, I think the convention to flip almost everything is due to old technological constraints. This could be easy to verify. E.g.: are there newspapers that predate Windows, where text is RTL but other layout elements flow from left to right?