RE: Capability

Christopher,
 
IE's support of vertical text is based on using the 'writing-mode' property as defined by CSS-3 and XSL-FO for a number of years now. There are implementations of 'writing-mode' other than Microsoft's IE that support the 'writing-mode' property. 
 
I still don't see a need to change something that is already working. CSS has markup specified that handles most samples in Elika's document. Adding the 'reference-orientation' from XSL-FO would allow for all examples in the paper to be rendered in CSS. 
 
Keeping CSS and XSL-FO in syn and keeping existing web pages working as they were designed is of great importance.
 
Paul Nelson
 
 

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From: www-style-request@w3.org on behalf of Christopher Tom
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 2:17 AM
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: Re: Capability




The existence of deployed content would make it more than simple
implementation, but how would dependence on existing functionality
negate the viability of a different specification which provides the
same functionality?

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:48:42 +0100, Christopher Tom
> <cctom@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> I don't think the simple existence of implementations necessarily
>> makes a difference.
>
> It does. It means there may be deployed content which relies on
> existing functionality.
>
>
>> Implement the new specification and the point becomes moot.
>
> See above.
>
>
As I understand it, Internet Explorer's implementation of vertical text
is based on Microsoft extensions to CSS.  Even if CSS adopts a different
specification, support for these extensions could continue in a way
which is transparent to the user.
> (Now it's not entirely clear what this thread is exactly about, but
> for vertical text Internet Explorer has got things working. And that's
> been deployed for quite some time now.)
>
>
> --Anne van Kesteren
> <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
> <http://www.opera.com/>
>

Received on Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:10:23 UTC