• Reported by Andreas

Interesting news at the W3C website: "CSS3 Modules Become W3C Candidate Recommendations". Of course there is the awesome opacity property in the Color Module, but as I am often dealing with Japanese hypertext, I am especially impressed with the settings the Text and Ruby Modules offer.
New possibilities include top-to-bottom/right-to-left text flow, horizontal or vertical glyph orientation within a text run, hanging punctuation, addition and alignment of ruby, etc.
This may all sound quite geeky, but these new properties allow for interesting tweaks to non-Asian text layouts, too. Take e.g. the properties that control glyph orientation: they allow you to display Western text vertically, with an angle of 90 or 0 degrees. And there's much more - certainly have a look and share your thoughts.
And now hoping for a fast advance towards a status as official W3C recommendation and appropriate browser implementation.