- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 00:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
- Cc: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > What should happen to this page when writing-mode is switched to > > tb-rl? In IE8 you'll see the very *end* of the document, since the > > text block is now very wide instead of very tall and the left most > > part of that block in view corresponds to the end of the document. > > Page down won't work, you'll need to scroll over to the far right, > > then read by clicking left. > > Conceptually, the css3 multi-column module could cover this. In > tb-rl mode the columns could become rows. The for a long page you > define the height of the row (=width of column), the width of the > whole block, and column-gaps and -rules work horizontally. > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/> Right, I definitely think something could be worked out that would work for vertical text. In fact, the more I look at long horizontal blocks of vertical text the more I think it's really a minimum requirement for usuable vertical text support, so that users can get blocks of vertical text that flow down over a set of rows rather than columns. John Daggett
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