- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:52:12 +0200
- To: "Ojan Vafai" <ojan@chromium.org>, "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 May 2010 03:00:19 +0200, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: > I'm not saying "box" is great and would welcome other suggestions, but > flexing is a property of the children, not of the container. The > container itself doesn't flex. Calling something a "flex" because the > children inside it get flexed seems weird to me. I think most authors (myself included) don't really care about the semantics and just want a simple memorable name. "flex" seems simpler than "flexbox" to me. The suffix "box" also seems weird as everything is a box already. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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