RE: XHTML/HTML standard

Robert Le Ferla wrote:
> I 
> would like information on any proposals for an image rotation angle 
> attribute for the IMG tag.  Given the ubiquity of digital 
> cameras in the 
> marketplace, there is a strong need for the ability to flip 
> the display 
> of images horizontally and vertically without altering the 
> actual file.  
> This functionality would be useful for both browsers and mail 
> user agent 
> applications.

The latest draft of the CSS3 Paged Media Module [1] contains a css property
for rotating a image[2]. I think that rotating and flipping an image is a
presentation issue rather than a structural/mark up issue.  So, I expect
that specifying this via a style property is preferred to an new element tag
attribute.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#orienting

Jim Bigelow, 
Editor: XHTML-Print & CSS Print Profile
W3C HTML and CSS Working Groups
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/
Hewlett-Packard
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