- From: Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:14:55 -0600
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Yes, very good point. It's a ratio, not a distance. On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:06 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 2009-12-02 16:03 -0600, Brendan Kenny wrote: >> Would it make more sense to introduce a shear() function instead, >> where the parameter is a <length> value? Another alternative, though >> not standard nomenclature, would be to overload skew() with a length >> unit. > > *If* we do introduce it, I think it should take a <number> rather > than a <length>. (This would mean that a point a length A from the > axis gets sheared the length number * A parallel to the axis.) > > -David > > -- > L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ > Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/ > >
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