FPWD: CSS Writing Modes Level 4

CSS Writing Modes Level 4

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-css-writing-modes-4-20171207/

Abstract


CSS Writing Modes Level 4 defines CSS support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts). CSS

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The following features are at-risk, and may be dropped during the CR period:  The sideways-lr and sideways-rl of writing-mode The digits value of text-combine-upright. The look-ahead/look-behind sequencing rules for text-combine-upright. Automatic multi-column behavior of orthogonal flows. 

“At-risk” is a W3C Process term-of-art, and does not necessarily imply that the feature is in danger of being dropped or delayed. It means that the WG believes the feature may have difficulty being interoperably implemented in a timely manner, and marking it as such allows the WG to drop the feature if necessary when transitioning to the Proposed Rec stage, without having to publish a new Candidate Rec without the feature first.