- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:53:09 +0100
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> On 02 Dec 2014, at 02:10, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, right, I was confused with carets, sorry about that. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: >> >> I don’t think we should go with a MUST level requirement that the cursor be perpendicular to the path (although I don’t think there’d be anything wrong with a MAY, if any UA is willing to rotate cursors in a fine grained manner, more power to them), but we may want to make a requirement of switching between horizontal and vertical when the angle of the text / tangent of the path cross +/- 45 degrees. > > I think we should keep it "MAY". We should not prevent UA doing > better, but UA might not want to do that while elements are animating. > > /koji Any other opinions on this topic? when the cursor (mouse cursor, not text caret) is hovering some text that's been either rotated by a transform, or shaped along a path, should this visual orientation affect the choice of a vertical / horizontal cursor (MAY? MUST?) or should we limit the influence to the writing mode (and associated) properties? - Florian
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