- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:10:18 -0400
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, Hakon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Yasuo Kida <kida@apple.com>
> > I don't understand why 'of-block' would mean that the margins given > > are in before-end-after-start order rather than top-right-bottom-left. > > When the text in a block is rotated or flipped by writing-mode or direction property, > "before" side is "top of block", so I thought "margin top of block 1em" can be meaningful > in English. It may be a little more understandable if you look at picture at: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-flow In the first picture, "top of block" is top side, while in the last picture, "top of block" is right side. Does this work? Regards, Koji
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