I suppose, but consider that we learned graphs all through school with a bottom up left to right coordinate system, so that seems to me more natural. Also with top down systems, you have to think that left to right numbers go up, but top down numbers go up. So down is up. Kinda like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Bob S > On Oct 5, 2017, at 07:58 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > > In my humble opinion, after 12 years it has to be easier > > to convince WC3 to change the SVG standard and adopt > > Inkscape bottomleft page origin... :D > > If there needs to be a bad guy here maybe the better finger-wagging would be > toward John Warnock, for approving a Postscript spec that uses a coordinate > system unlike anything else in the computing world, bifurcating the software > landscape into bottom-zero and top-zero camps. > > And ever since the Postscript licensing debacle which eventually prompted > everyone else to join together to replace Postscript fonts with TrueType (not > to mention the dismally wonky PDF format), who doesn't enjoy picking on > Warnock? ;) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
