The priority to implement vertical writing support in wikimedia is currently set to lowest in phabricator for some reason https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11436 2016/06/01 12:16 "Amir E. Aharoni" <[email protected]>:
> Browsers indeed have already implemented some support for top-down > writing. But as it is with right-to-left languages, browsers only provide > some infrastructure, and the web developers have to actually use it. For > RTL in MediaWiki it's CSSJanus and a lot of little tweaks all over the > place. For SignWriting I haven't looked into details yet, but I suppose > that it's comparable. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2016-05-31 8:21 GMT-07:00 Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Is not top/down and the various related things currently proposed by W3C >> mainly a task to be undertaken by browser makers? Should we not wait for >> the first updates to appear? >> >> Purodha >> >> >> On 31.05.2016 17:04, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> The interface of MediaWiki is right to left or left to right. With ASL >>> it has to be top down. This is something that has never been >>> considered. I have asked for ASL to become a full project so that the >>> issues can be properly seen, diagnosed and remedied. It will be >>> supported by the SignWriting Foundation. There is no chance that it >>> will be abandoned and it is imho enough reason to allow for it to be >>> created at this time. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 31 May 2016 at 15:40, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 31 May 2016, at 08:18, Gerard Meijssen >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> The language policy allows us to be flexible with how we interpret >>>>> >>>> the rules. My experience is that we are not using this flexibility. >>>> I made several proposals over te last few years and they have all >>>> been torpedoed. >>>> >>>> Which ones? >>>> >>>> ASL is the latest example of this. It makes sense to allow for one >>>>> >>>> Wikipedia with SignWriting because it is the only way that we will >>>> get the technical aspects of MediaWiki right. It means that issues >>>> will be exposed in Commons and Wikidata as well. >>>> >>>> Can you explain why the incubator isn’t enough? I mean, if it’s >>>> not working entirely well, isn’t that a problem? >>>> >>>> Michael Everson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Langcom mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > >
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