Re: Inline elements should be affected by 2D Transforms

Shane, your technique does break "some" into "so" and "me" in Webkit.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Shane Stephens <shans@google.com> wrote:

> 1. The desired behavior is very dependent upon your application.   If you
> want to rotate an entire paragraph, then it's inappropriate to transform
> line-by-line.  On the other hand, for blocks of text that reflow across
> region or page boundaries, transforming line-by-line is the only sensible
> approach.
>
> Clearly authors need to be able to describe a block of text that flows in
> the correct manner but that is kept together.  This, of course, is one of
> the purposes of inline-block. Hence restricting transforms to situations in
> which author intent is clear (e.g. when they have explicitly marked text as
> a single unit by placing it in a display:inline-block span) is very
> sensible.
>
> 2. It is true that some artifacts are introduced when using inline-block on
> single characters.  These artifacts are:
>   a. space characters are collapsed when isolated in a span
>   b. word boundaries are not respected when words are split across multiple
> spans with different display settings.
> It is possible that one or both of these could be considered bugs - I don't
> know enough of the specifics of word boundary detection to be
> sure. Nevertheless it is completely possible to work around these issues,
> e.g. for the purpose of slightly transforming individual characters in a
> word.  For example:
>
> .word {
>   display: inline-block;
> }
>
> .transformMe {
>   display: inline-block;
>   transform: ...;
> }
>
> This is <span class="word">s<span class="transformMe">o</span>me</span>
> text
>
> Reflows exactly as you would expect and works very nicely.
>
> Cheers,
>     -Shane
>