- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:32:08 +0100
- To: W3C CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Paul Nelson, 2007-01-11: > IE's support of vertical text is based on using the 'writing-mode' > property as defined by CSS-3 and XSL-FO for a number of years now. I do not know about XSL-FO, but there is no REC of any CSS level 3 module yet so it cannot have specified anything for years, although the Text module once had reached CR status it has been a mere WD for one and a half years now. Level 2 does not include 'writing-mode'. You, Paul, of course know that, you are one of the editors (according to <http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work#text>, not the current draft). What makes your argument awkward is that you are also an employee of the only company who originally implemented the draft in its product (or rather had the draft written by another employee to reflect said implementation). I think it was the right decision to redo the module (now split into two), but it is regress to try too hard to make new drafts compatible to implementations of old ones which have been withdrawn for good reasons. Christoph Päper
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