Friday, April 11th, 2008
Upside Down Text
Category: Fun, JavaScript
John Dyer has implemented the much asked for upside down text JavaScript that lets you code this:
HTML:
to see this:
If you look at the source you will see that the magic is in a flip table that does the unicode thing.
I love the rationalization:
There is a huge need for upside down text on the web. With everyone "going mobile," developers cannot simply rely on users having their screens oriented the same way all the time.
Nice joshing :)
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Umm, isn’t that what SVG is for? Hard to see the practicality for this when you can’t read half the letters when “flipped”
Wow!
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This is going to be fantastic for my mobile text-mode original tabletop Donkey Kong rewrite! I’ve been at 99% for months, and the upside-down score text had stumped me. Get ready for impromptu coffee-shop text-mode tabletop Donkey Kong tournaments!
@TNO: I’m always amazed when people feel the need to nitpick humor.
Humor is quite a relative thing, and in this case I didn’t get the memo
Might be interested that Umop Apisdn function does things with regular alphabets :-)
Hmm … never needed that feature. Text in 45 degree for nice tables would be nice.
I cant seem to figure out how this is useful. I’m a mobile web user and there is no need for upside down text, who reads stuff upside down? If I were to hold my phone upside down then it will flip the browser upside down too, or even sideways so its always normal.
Does anyone who browse using a phone that doesn’t flip a website around for you keep it upside down and try to read it upside down? I think they usually just flip back their phone in a way that they can read it.
You can browse the whole web upside down from here…
http://flip.sytes.org/