- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 15:13:50 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 5:14a -0700 08/16/97, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> > vertically. This is also the way all Word Processors behave -- the words
> > are wrapped horizontally and the document scrolls vertically. This was
> > not a paradigm invented just for HTML -- it's simply the way *we* read.
>
> Unless you happen to have a language that runs some other way than
> horizontal then vertical. Japanese, for example, can run top->bottom,
> right->left (and often does in printed media). This would most naturally
> result in a need to scroll to the *left* to read text as you extended into
> the document. I haven't seen a browser that can handle that (not saying
> there isn't one, just that I haven't seen one). So when you say 'the way
> we read' you are limiting yourself to a particular sub-set of 'we' and
> 'reading'.
Well, we know Tim is not Nihonjin... ;-) But Japanese, due to its "block"
characters, works just as well L->R/T->B as it does T->B/R->L (hey, you
could build his name from that sequence... <G>), and I would guess that
most Japanese are comfortable reading L->R/T->B.
> The need for a <VR> in such a configuration is obvious. It is
True.
> not at all clear to me how the current table model and VALIGN/ALIGN in
> general would be fit into top->bottom, left-right text flow.
It's not clear to me how, either. :-)
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