- From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:11:32 -0800
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bw3c at gmail.com> > wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <ryosuke.niwa at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I don't like "top"/"bottom" because it seems to imply certain visual > > orientation. (e.g. I think RTL text in vertical writing mode flows bottom > > up). To make terms agnostic of text direction and writing mode, I'd > prefer > > "forwards" / "backwards". > > I don't know what "vertical writing mode" is. RTL text flows bottom > to top if you turn it ninety degrees clockwise, and top to bottom if > you turn it counterclockwise, while LTR is the opposite. But yeah, I > think we're all in violent agreement on this point. > FYI, http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ - Ryosuke
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