[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation

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#24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation
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 Reporter:  yoavf           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.7
Component:  General         |     Version:
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Comment (by yoavf):

 @mark-k - automated css is perfectly doable - from what I know this is
 entirely how Google operate across all of their sites and services, and
 how Wikipedia is built (the PHP port of CSSJanus we use on WP.com has been
 done by Wikimedia).

 Sure, you may have to write your (ltr) css in certain ways to minimize
 problems. But that's completely in line with general css best practices.
 In any case that's why education and documentation are a big part of this
 challenge.

 As for the specific examples you've mentioned - CSSJanus has built in
 support for flipped images - and we'll make this part of our build
 process. Additionally, core has been and will be removing a lot of images
 used to style the admin. Quite a few of them are replaced by pure css
 and/or genericons. Background positioning can be problematic, but totally
 manageable either with mirrored sprites and/or percent based positioning.

 With regard to testing - it won't be much different that the situation
 today. We have a lot of core contributors who regularly test core on RTL
 mode during development, and there's no reason this will change.

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