It's been proposed and was in earlier versions of CSS3 text. It has lower priority because there is no live language that would use a writing mode like that for normal writing. It should be there at some point. Probably CSS4 text. -----Original Message----- From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Henri Sivonen Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:32 PM To: W3C Style List Subject: CSS3 Text Layout: Writing Latin bottom-to-top within line with blocks progressing to the right Reading CSS3 Text Layout and experimenting with IE8, it seems to me that writing-mode doesn't have a mode that'd effectively rotate Latin text layout 90 degrees counter-clockwise. That is, text inside line going from bottom to top and blocks progressing from left to right. Use case: Writing vertical column headings for a table in a way that degrades gracefully where not supported and cell shrink wrap happening after the header contents have been vertically laid out. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Sunday, 11 January 2009 23:04:35 GMT
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