Re: [css3-grid-layout] Renaming implicitly named lines, reverse grid indices

On 02/14/2012 08:26 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> ± From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
> ± Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:10 AM
> ±
> ± The Grid Layout spec implicitly defines 'start' and 'end' as the first and last lines of the
> ± grid, respectively. While this might make sense for grid columns, it conflicts with our
> ± logical naming scheme when applied to grid rows. Therefore, if such keywords are needed, I
> ± suggest using 'first' and 'last' (as used by one of the examples for explicitly-named
> ± lines).
>
> Are there other places where "first" and "last" are used with similar meaning?
>
> Renaming for consistency elsewhere would be a good reason.
>
> Renaming because there is something wrong with grid having symmetrical model in 2 dimensions seems questionable. We have chosen to use start/end for 'flex-align' *because* it is what grid is using - with same motivation. Why would we suddenly become shy of naming grid lines to match alignment directions??

The convention is

    before
start + end
     after

Why aren't we using that convention?

~fantasai