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by dunham 836 days ago
At one point, SVG couldn't do that. It was a long time ago, but I recall not being able to use SVG to render sideways text because the text tag wasn't supported by browsers.

For IE, we had a PNG font that we displayed slices of, and then we migrated to rotation css as various browsers supported it. (I think IE was the last holdout, but it's been a while.)