Re: [css3-transform] definition of skewing

On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:58 pm, Rik Cabanier wrote:

> I agree that if you want to follow the SVG spec, skew is well defined.
> Why would you object to have 2 parameters for rotate? It seems like a useful effect to have and not that different from the existing rotate.

We're trying to keep CSS and SVG transforms as similar as possible; in fact, via the FX Task Force, we'd like to end up with a single spec for both eventually.

> Rotate(45, 45) would result in the same effect as rotate(45)

I don't see how that works at all. Rotation is defined as being around a point. How can you have different angles for the two axes?

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> The spec still says that skew(x, y) is still valid so maybe it should be updated.

It's been removed from the editor's draft:
<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-2d-transforms/>

Simon