- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:01:14 +0900
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>, 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 Sep 2015, at 22:46, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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). > For what it's worth, I agree as well, as Koji said. - Florian
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