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oh, I was doing vertical text layout wrong… https://hikari.noyu.me now looks correct in Firefox without hacks. too bad about Chrome, though, that still needs a work-around. as for Safari, it has weird spacing for some reason…
to clarify: it looks fine in Safari but the margins are different from the other browsers and it’s not clear why
@hikari on mobile safari it looks fine to me… until I zoom in and back out :)
@0xabad1dea mobile browsers are annoying…
@hikari Looks OK on a Safari Technology Preview from here.
My old employer, Sauce Labs, has tools if you want to test in a LOT of different browsers.
Nonetheless, vertically aligned CJKV text in browsers is non trivial (I know from personal experience) and given that your cursor even changes its orientation on hover-over I think you are doing better than most!
@byterhymer oh I should clarify: it looks fine in Safari, but if you compare it to other browsers, the margin between the vertical text and horizontal text below it is much larger, and I couldn’t figure out why that is
@hikari I doubt anyone will ever be able to answer such a question satisfactorily. Browsers are a kludge that long since gave up on being mutually compatible.
Written as someone who once helped get NCSA Mosaic and ViolaWWW running on SunOS and IRIX vintage systems at nps.navy.mil back when there were a few thousand websites, total. Before IE and Netscape and such began the so-called "browser wars" which only made everything much MUCH worse.
@hikari e.g. http://www.artkiver.com/itoi18nexperiments I have some experiments from years ago with vertically aligned text too, but you'll notice: the cursor does not change orientation on mouse over indicating such things, unlike your efforts.
In other words: well done!
You may have given me some inspiration for improvement too.