[w3ctag/design-reviews] FYI: SVG textPath side attribute (Issue #1279)

hyowon-igalia created an issue (w3ctag/design-reviews#1279)

Hi TAG,

This is an FYI about Chromium's planned implementation of the existing SVG2 `side` attribute on `<textPath>`.

During the Intent to Ship discussion, Blink API owners recommended notifying the TAG for awareness. We have already sent the Intent to Ship; apologies for the late notification. This issue is intended as an FYI rather than a request for a full design review, but feedback is welcome.

### Feature summary

The `side` attribute controls which side of a path the text is placed on. Setting `side="right"` effectively reverses the path direction for text layout.

This allows authors to place text on the inside or outside of a shape, such as a circular path, without duplicating or manually reversing the path data.

### Specification

- SVG2 definition:
  https://w3c.github.io/svgwg/svg2-draft/text.html#TextPathElementSideAttribute
- Related SVG Working Group discussion about the IDL:
  https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/1086

### Implementation references

- Chromium:
  https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40362379
- Firefox:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034371
- WebKit:
  https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/66616

### Chromium shipping plans

We are targeting Chrome 156, subject to the remaining shipping approvals.

- ChromeStatus:
  https://chromestatus.com/feature/5422782593761280
- Intent to Ship discussion:
  https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6aab4606.edf999b6.27416f.0002.GAE%40google.com

Thanks!

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