Re: [csswg-drafts] Why there's no horizontal-rtl and horizontal-ltr values in the "Writing mode" property? (#10731)

Marking as "Question Answered" - as Tim said, 'writing-mode' gives the *axis* of text flow, and the *direction* that text lines are stacked, but the *direction* of text flow is determined by the 'direction' property instead. This is somewhat a historical issue, as directionality was originally controlled solely by the `dir` attribute in HTML, which was adapted into the 'direction' property. 'writing-mode' was created separately and designed to work alongside that.

I'll let @fantasai decide if this issue should just be closed, or if there's more to discuss.

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