- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:01:07 +0100
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
* Ambrose LI wrote: >But then what exactly is the point of 2D transforms? In the context of >page layout, I have always thought that 2D transforms primarily serve >two purposes: (1) to allow fake italics, and (2) to allow glyphs to be >rotated 180° (many IPA letters were obviously originally created this >way). If transforms are only applied to block level elements, however, >then I’m not seeing an obvious use. I must be missing something >obvious? I do not know about that, but personally I am eagerly awaiting CSS' arrival in the 1980s with support for rotated text in table headers (looking at current implementations I should add that that shouldn't make the text illegible...) -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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