Fantasai has convinced me. No predefined class names or rules for image flipping, and no regrets that we did not propose adding flipping attribute(s) to HTML's <img>. Aharon On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote: > On 11/05/2010 02:13 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin >> <aharon@google.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> As was also mentioned, this does not address similar flipping/rotation >>> for >>> <img> elements ... >>> >> >> Could you do this by tagging the <img> with @dir? ... >> >> >> That is, whenever the <img> is in an opposite-direction context, flip it. >> > > Theoretically, yes, but most of the time image content isn't directional. > So you don't want to do that unconditionally. (Note the 'dir' attribute > on <img>, <object>, etc. is supposed to indicate the base direction of > fallback text; it is not about the directionality of the image itself.) > > In fact, I can't think of a use case where an embedded *content* image > would need to be flipped for horizontal presentation. All the images > that I can think of that would need to be flipped are presentational. > > If there are counterexamples that prove a strong case for automatic > direction-flipping of content images, then the issue should be brought > to the HTMLWG for consideration; hacking this with CSS is not appropriate > imo. I'm just not coming up with anything--and the workaround of providing > alternate images does exist for any unusual cases. > > ~fantasai >
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