- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:14:39 +0200
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 12, 2009, at 01:03, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > 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. I see. Without knowing the implementation details, I naïvely think that supporting the case of rotating Latin text layout 90 counter- clockwise would have a small incremental implementation cost once block-progression: rl; is already sunk cost. > It should be there at some point. Probably CSS4 text. I think adding this makes particular sense for enabling graceful degradation. One could emulate this using block-progression: rl; and then rotating the container 180 degrees around its center using CSS Transforms, but this approach won't degrade gracefully, because the implementation timelines for block-progression and Transforms are independent of each other and already there are CSS formatters out there that support one but not the other (Trident for block- progression and WebKit for Transforms). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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