RE: Web page layouts in different cultures - question from DIWG

Yes. Absolutely.  I was talking about (X)HTML in my previous note. 
 


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	From: Steve Zilles [mailto:szilles@adobe.com] 
	Sent: 22 September 2005 20:15
	To: Richard Ishida; 'Bruno Girin'; www-international-request@w3.org
	Cc: www-di@w3.org; www-international@w3.org
	Subject: RE: Web page layouts in different cultures - question from
DIWG
	
	
	At 05:43 AM 9/22/2005, Richard Ishida wrote:
	

		> Unfortunately neither HTML nor CSS support vertical
layout.
		
		CSS3 will provide this.  Note also that some vertical text
support is
		available using IE already (though I'm not recommending this
be used until
		standards exist, you can see an example at
		http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/samples/japanese.html
(select the
		direction in the right hand column). Note how the text does
not fill the
		page vertically. )


	No need to wait for CSS3, both XSL
	  http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/
	<http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/> and SVG (check section
10)
	  http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
	<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/> support vertical text in their current
Recommendations. The CSS3 proposals of record are largely based on the XSL
extensions, but the Rudy support in CSS3 was done only in CSS.
	
	

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