Re: [css-writing-modes] computed value for text-orientation: sideways or sideways-right

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, 馬場孝夫 <baba@bpsinc.jp> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan, Gerard, fantasai.
>
> # This is my first time to sending www-style. Nice to e-meet you.
> # I'm Baba, a colleague of Hiroshi (skk@bpsinc.jp).
>
> I roughly agree to Gerard.
>
> In my opinion 'text-orientation: sideways-left' might be needed in the
> future,
> because of the following reason:
>
> Since an inline box which has a different 'writing-mode' property to its
> parent
> becomes inline-block, it is impossible to align original baseline between
> clockwise-rotated texts and counter-clockwise-rotated texts. Mostly this
> is not
> required because mixing them in a same line is rare, but is possibly
> needed in
> the future. So we propose to disuccuss it in future level.
>

I don't think we'd have any troubles if we make 'sideways' as the canonical
computed value, and in future we want to add 'sideways-left', so it doesn't
look relevant to me. What's the problem for you?

/koji