- From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:54:30 -0800
- To: Vynce Montgomery <vynce.montgomery@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:51 pm, Vynce Montgomery wrote: > I dunno what you guys are doing with transform > (a) please make rotate() positive for counter-clockwise, as it is in > mathematics. This is the opposite of what the (not yet standardized) > prototypes in webkit, mozilla, and opera do, but it's still correct. The clockwise direction was chosen to match SVG: <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/coords.html#RotationDefined> In addition, on a web page the coordinate system is top-down, so a clockwise direction is arguably more sensible. [Unfortunately this still conflicts with the rotation direction of the recently-proposed gradients.] > (b) please consider having a separate transform-translate, > transform-rotate, etc so that they can be numeric properties. Can you explain why you need these? Simon
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