Re: [css-transforms] Adding specialized properties for simple transforms

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
> > I think the origin bits are the interesting part for rotate and scale.
> As I understand Shane, he wants everything to be expressed in the
> untransformed coordinate space. So would be the expression of the origin.
> That means that we have to multiply the origin of scale (and for rotate as
> well) with the inverse of all previous transformations for the current
> element. Is it that what you mean Rik?
>
> Your transform list confused me, but I'll just say that what Shane
> wants is for the origins to work "independently", so that you don't
> have to think about the fact that t/s/r all exist and might apply when
> you're just trying to write one of them.  Whatever that implies for
> ordering of the translates used for origin hacks, that's what we want.


I agree.
If we keep the origin-per-transform, the spec will need to say that the
origins of scale and rotate need to be updated with the translatation.