- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:24:40 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 05/12/2014 08:53 PM, Simon Sapin wrote:
> In §5.1 Orienting Text: the text-orientation property:
>
>> sideways-left
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Similarly, if an inline child of the box has a text-orientation value
>> other than sideways-left, an analogous transformation (and bidi
>> isolation) is applied.
>
> Rather than "inline child", shouldn’t this be something like
> "inline descendant in the same inline formatting context" ?
> Example where this is relevant:
>
> <p style="text-orientation: sideways-left">Foo <em><a style="text-orientation: mixed">bar
No, because
a) It isn't necessary because em also has text-orientation: sideways
b) It's harmful because if <a> has a child also, then we have a problem
since it is also considered a descendant of <em> and <p>.
The current wording is therefore correct.
~fantasai
Received on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 20:25:12 UTC