[css-writing-modes] DoC Issue 38. SVG and writing-mode

Author: kojiishi

css-writing-modes/Overview.bs

@@ -949,6 +949,18 @@ SVG1.1 'writing-mode' Values</h4>
     on whether this process causes "writing-mode: rl" to merely shift the
     text string or reverse the order of all glyphs in the text.</p>
 
+  <div class="note" id="embedded-svg-inheritance">
+    <p>As all other CSS properties do,
+    the 'writing-mode' property inherits to embedeed inline SVG elements.
+    This could cause unintentional side effects when, for example,
+    an SVG designed only for horizontal flow was embedded inline into a vertical flow document.
+
+    <p>Authors can prevent this from happening by adding the following rule:
+    <div class="example">
+      <pre>svg { writing-mode: initial; }</pre>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
 <h2 id="inline-alignment">
 Inline-level Alignment</h2>
 

css-writing-modes/issues-cr-2014.bs-issues

@@ -305,8 +305,9 @@ Issue 38.
 Summary:  [css-writing-modes][svg] SVG and writing-mode
 From:     Koji Ishii
 Comment:  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0092.html
-Open:     Needs clarifying edits
 Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0313.html
+Closed:   Accepted
+Resolved: Editorial
 ----
 Issue 39.
 Summary:  Confused testcase

css-writing-modes/issues-cr-2014.html

@@ -365,13 +365,14 @@ <h1>CSS Writing Modes Level 3 Disposition of Comments for 2014-03-20 CR</h1>
 Closed:   Accepted
 Resolved: Editorial
 </pre>
-<pre class='open' id='issue-38'>
+<pre class='a' id='issue-38'>
 Issue 38. <a href='#issue-38'>#</a>
 Summary:  [css-writing-modes][svg] SVG and writing-mode
 From:     Koji Ishii
 Comment:  <a href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0092.html'>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0092.html</a>
-Open:     Needs clarifying edits
 Resolved: <a href='https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0313.html'>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0313.html</a>
+Closed:   Accepted
+Resolved: Editorial
 </pre>
 <pre class='oi' id='issue-39'>
 Issue 39. <a href='#issue-39'>#</a>