- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:46:22 +0100
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, 馬場孝夫 <baba@bpsinc.jp>, Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>, W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On 19/9/15 13:26, Koji Ishii wrote: > The original topic is just about serialization, used in > getComputedStyle() and a few other places. Jonathan might need to > resolve it now, and I need it too very soon. Can we simply straw poll on > the next conf call, resolve, and do other discussions after that? Yes, please -- I'm implementing this in gecko right now, so clarification on this would be really useful. > > <div id=a style="text-orientation:sideways"></div> > <div id=b style="text-orientation:sideways-right"></div> > <script> > console.log(getComputedStyle(a).style.textOrientation); > console.log(getComputedStyle(b).style.textOrientation); > </script> > > Option A: it prints "sideways" and "sideways-right" > Option B: it prints "sideways" and "sideways" > Option C: it prints "sideways-right" and "sideways-right" > > Current situation: > * Jonathan, Florian, and I prefer B. > * Takao prefers C. > * fantasai didn't show her preference IIUC but proposing a rename to > "sideways-lr". > >> I think I would like to investigate the backwards-compat impact >>of switching to 'text-orientation: sideways-rl' and dropping >>the other keywords, since that would be a little easier to type, >>but also clearer and more consistent with the corresponding >>writing-mode' keywords... what is your opinion on that, if it >>is feasible? > > I disagree. 'writing-mode' is about direction, so "l-to-r" and "r-to-l" > makes sense. 'text-orientation' is about orientation, so "right" makes > sense. And I agree with Koji here: I don't think 'sideways-rl' is good as a 'text-orientation' value. This property is distinct from 'writing-mode' and it's better not to confuse the values of the two. So my preference is still the simple 'sideways', with the alias 'sideways-right' supported for backward compatibility (option B above). JK
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