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by ebg13 2132 days ago
> This is not relevant for URL or search bars since they need to be displayed horizontally

Need? Has anyone tried?

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I've seen it, back around 1999, possibly konqueror? Something that let you drag around toolbars and if you moved the address bar to the left/right side it would change the direction of writing.

Let's say that testing it briefly was enough. Editing tilted text works up to around 45 degrees, steeper than that is a strain.

Good luck reading anything in latin script with a one-character wide vertical search bar. This would works for Chinese (that’s the traditional writing orientation) but definitely not for most other languages.