- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:36:45 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
From last week's minutes:
On 6/8/15 12:22, Dael Jackson wrote:
> writing-modes and text-orientation
> ----------------------------------
>
> - Everyone on the call was in support of the proposal to create
> sideways-lr and sideways-rl in writing-mode, but all the
> interested parties weren't on the call, so a decision will
> occur on the mailing list.
I'd like to make this change to Gecko in the very near future, but
before starting to actually land code it would be good to have
confirmation of the decision.
My current understanding is that we'll end up with:
writing-mode: horizontal-tb |
vertical-rl | vertical-lr |
sideways-rl | sideways-lr
and
text-orientation: mixed | upright | sideways (or sideways-rl?)
where text-orientation has no effect in horizontal or sideways-* writing
modes; it's only applicable to vertical-* modes.
Regarding the 'sideways' value of text-orientation, this (AIUI) is the
same as the current draft's 'sideways-right', which is already
implemented in several browsers (with or without prefixes). As such,
would it be better to retain the 'sideways-right' name, or perhaps to
accept it as an alias of 'sideways', so as to avoid breaking content
that is already using that name?
A firm decision on the new design, as well as any guidance on what to do
with 'text-orientation: sideways-right', would be very welcome. Thanks!
JK
Received on Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:37:16 UTC