Re: [css3-flexbox] [css3-grid-layout] Too Many Alignment Properties from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-02-03 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:22:16 -0800
To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAEUd_Mp8fQKA1gxJg2Y3GTL5O-+297w5X7htaN0YnLWg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Actually 'flex-line-pack' maps (more or less) to generic alignment (it can apply to text). Then 'flex-align' doesn't map. Either way, there are more properties for cross aligment...

Maybe, yeah.  The point (which you clearly understand) is just that
flexbox has *two* properties that align contents in the same axis, so
this makes it even harder to generalize.

~TJ

Received on Friday, 3 February 2012 14:23:11 UTC