- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:29:38 +0100
- To: Keryx Web <webmaster@keryx.se>, www-style@w3.org
At 9:25 +0200 30/06/09, Keryx Web wrote: >Sorry for the bump, but I really want an answer. Sorry. I have had several discussions about this with my colleagues, and so far we don't have a better idea than the kinds of multiple-embedded-things that you showed in your example. It's a relevant problem, and it's surprisingly subtle. We'll probably keep nibbling away at it, and I encourage you to do the same. It might be good to start a Wiki on the issues, I suppose.... > >On 2009-06-27 11:01, Keryx Web wrote: >>Hi >> >>With CSS transformations I have finally found a way to rotate column >>headers in order to save space. I have put it into experimental use for >>FFox 3.5 at: >> >>http://keryx.se/resources/html-elements/ >> >>(Apologies to Webkit: I will add support soon.) >> >>Without this feature my table gets really wide and will cause excessive >>horizontal scrolling for most users. It also helps trying to fit the >>table on a paper for printing. >> >>This is a very clear use-case and a standard feature in all spreadsheet >>software. >> >>I have described my technique at >>http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/2009/05/rotating-column-headers-using-css-only.html >> >> >>As you can see my method is quite a hack and very fragile and I can't >>use the same values for Gecko and Webkit. >> >>It seems to me that there should be a way to achieve this result that is >>easy and stable. Has this been discussed and if so can someone point me >>to that discussion? >> > > >-- >Keryx Web (Lars Gunther) >http://keryx.se/ >http://twitter.com/itpastorn/ >http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/ -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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