- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:28:01 -0400
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
On 26 October 2010 04:11, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach "Martin J. Dürst": > > > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="horizontal.css" class="horizontal"/> > > > <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="vertical.css" class="vertical"/> > > > Sorry to jump into this discussion without potentially understanding all > > the details, but while it is to a large extent possible e.g. in Japanese > > to switch from horizontal to vertical just by switching styling, there > > are some aspects of this switch that need more work. A typical example > > is that in horizontal text, you may use Arabic numerals (0123...), > > whereas in vertical text, Kanji numbers (〇一二三...) may be preferred. > > That's an interesting use case which can be handled by the above code. > For example, you could have: > > <span class=arabic>0123</span><span class=kanji>〇一二三</span> But this markup wouldn't fall back correctly on browsers that don't support CSS, would it? -- cheers, -ambrose
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