- From: Alan Gresley <alan1@azzurum.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:26:19 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
- cc: John Oyler <johnoyler.css@gmail.com>
John Oyler wrote: > > This note attempts to enumerate the set of use cases that have > > been, to date, identified for providing a "rotation" (and/or > > "tranform") property in CSS. (Because the discussion of "rotation" > > broadened into a discussion of arbitrary 2D transforms, the > > possibility of a "transform" property instead of just rotation is > > considered in these use cases. The use cases themselves only > > require rotation, however. > > By far the most useful will be for certain tables, where labeling > columns will require text rotated into a vertical orientation, I'd > think. Obviously images aren't appropriate, and svg seems burdensome. > In many cases, text itself would be the most useful, and I'm not sure > that rotation should be extended to arbitrary elements. Also less > useful is arbitrary rotation... 90/180/270 degrees would do 95% of > what most people need. Just my personal opinion. > > John Oyler > john@discrevolt.com But in a use case such a labeling for tables, I would believe that it would be much easier to read text that is not rotated but instead appearing vertical with letters flowing down an element like this T A B L E which is a working draft already. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work#text-layout Text rotation I think is much more about stylizing the text. Kind Regards, Alan http://css-class.com/
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