Re: Inline elements should be affected by 2D Transforms

On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Brian Blakely wrote:
> 
>> Boris,
>> 
>> That is why support for inline elements was originally removed.  Which is silly.
>> 
>> There is a very strong precedent path for cases where popular, but varying, implementations are introduced into spec.
>> 
>> Restored support for inline elements should follow an analysis of current implementations, and either a single implementation is chosen as the standard, or an amalgam that optimally satisfies.
>> 
> 
> The problem is that there isn't an implementation that makes sense.
> 
> Consider an inline element split over 2 lines, with a rotation transform. What do you expect to happen?

I would expect the two lines to rotate as though the transform was applied to their bounding box, all without disturbing any of the content outside the span.

Received on Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:34:14 UTC