- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:38:04 +0100 (MET)
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- cc: Space Cowboy <spacecow@mis.net>, www-style@w3.org, w3c-css-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Chris Lilley wrote: > On Nov 25, 3:08pm, Space Cowboy wrote: > > > While it's probably quite complex and a little complicated to deal with, > > wouldn't it be nice if you could have a rotate property in CSS? Even if > > it's only the cardinal points (0, 90, 180, 270 degrees), I think it > > would be a real boon to pages. > > There are clearly lots of uses of rotated text in print publication and in > "pictures of text" on the Web. The question then becomes, can this be fitted > into the model used by CSS and what is the implementation effort (both > directly and in terms of "what breaks if this is added". There are quite some connections between vertical text, arbitrary text directions, and rotated text. I propose that we discuss this in this context in CSS 3. > > and rendering raster images is very complicated, > > It can be fairly simple - for a pixel replication method, iterate over > every pixel in the destination image and transform back to the original > image to locate the nearest pixel; color destination pixel same as source > pixel. > > For higher quality yes, it gets complicated since a proper subsampling > method will always generate a truecolor image even if the original image > was palettized - a problem on platforms with limited color capability > such as the grossly inadequate but surprisingly common 256 color displays. Well, more and more this is done with hardware support. It's called "textures" :-). Regards, Martin.
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