- From: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:44:55 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:21:05 +0100, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 02/15/2012 09:13 AM, John Daggett wrote: >> >> In CSS terminology, 'normal' is usually associated with default >> behavior. It is *not* an assessment of what is "normal" in the general >> sense of the world. > > I agree with Koji on this point. I would rather not use 'normal' here > because the behavior is very abnormal for non-vertical writing systems. +1 for not using normal here. >> The term 'mixed-right' communicates *very* little, I don't think anyone >> would understand what that means without looking up the definition. And >> by labeling it something other than 'normal' it's easy to miss that this >> is the default behavior. > > It communicates that the orientation is mixed, and that it's related > to the orientation sideways-right: both turn some text 90deg clockwise. I don't think mixed-right is particularly nice, but it is not worse than the ones we've used before. I don't care too strongly either way between the current alternatives, and I hope we'll find a better one eventually. As for upright vs stacked, I have a mild preference for stacked, as it is a better description of the behavior, and as it leaves upright available in case we ever want that behavior. - Florian
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