[thelist] Vertical Text

Glenn Turner gturner at ync.net
Wed Nov 21 16:29:14 CST 2001


At 10:11 PM 11/21/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salvatore Palmisano" <spalmisano at usashs.com>
>Subject: RE: [thelist] Vertical Text
>
> > I was able to get this looking as expected on the screen, but when printed
> > it goes funky.
> > Here's the example:
> >
> > http://www.palmisanonet.com/test.asp
>
>Its horizontal in Moz 0.9.5.

He's setting it vertically using writing-mode: tb-rl; which can currently 
only be read by IE 5.5+, and using javascript to see if your browser can 
handle it ... i believe writing-mode is part of the proposed specs for css3 
[someone please correct me if i'm wrong :) ].

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#PrimaryTextAdvanceDirection

hth,

-glenn

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