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{ Monthly Archives } October 2012

Vertical Text, part 2

A few steps forward: the tab titles, menus, etc. are no longer vertical, though the address bar still is, and the glyphs are centered on a vertical “base” line. For Japanese that doesn’t make much difference, but Latin script as in this example looks much better than in the previous version, where the glyphs were […]

2012 10 10 Simon Montagu Mozilla Comments Off on Vertical Text, part 2

Vertical Text part 1

This is my first lash-up prototype of a browser displaying data:text/html,油こほりともし火細き寝覚哉 as vertical text. Click on the thumbnail or here to see the full-size image. When I say lash-up, I mean lash-up: you will notice that everything is vertical, including the tab titles and the address bar, where you can see the first couple of […]

2012 10 09 Simon Montagu Mozilla Comments Off on Vertical Text part 1