> Was wondering if there is any technique to create text at an angle
> from what I see on my searches this is only possible with very old
> and obsolete IE4 properties

Yes, that. Quoting myself some weeks back:

MSIE has a proprietary matrix selector (sans Kung Fu sadly enough) for
that kind of stuff, too:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/matrix.asp

For MSIE only stuff you could do:
<div class="diagonal">test</div>

.diagonal {width:8em;height:1em;background: #eee;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(M11='0.7071067811865476',
M12='0.7071067811865475', M21='-0.7071067811865475'
,M22='0.7071067811865476', sizingmethod='auto expand'); }

Cryptic? Why yes!
This might help, just enter the degrees you want the thing to turn:

http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/matrixshenanigans.html

> I imagine the best options are to use the dave shea sprite technique
> www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites and use some sort of image
> replacement technique on the text that needs to be angled
>
> anyone know if this is going to be a property for css3?
>
> I want to do this technique so that I can combine it with the FACE
> animation technique by kura fire to then create interface elements
> similar to flash that are accessible and only use css

I seem to remember something like that being planned, don't have a
link though. I think he likes it to be called KuraFire by the way as
it is a cryptic pun on Faruk's real name.

I'd be careful with stating "animation" and "accessible" in the same
sentence, as graceful degradation does not necessarily mean
accessibility.

HTH
Chris

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