- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:20:31 +0900
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
- CC: Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>, liam@w3.org, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-i18n-cjk@w3.org" <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
On 2012/10/11 16:01, Simon Sapin wrote: > Le 11/10/2012 08:46, Philippe Wittenbergh a écrit : >> 'block-before' sounds a bit strange when one wants to apply the >> equivalent of 'padding-top' to an inline (or inline-block) element. Yes, in that case it sounds a bit strange. But overall, I like Liam's proposal quite a bit, in my eyes it's definitely better than start/end/head/foot. >> Or does the 'block' part refer to a direction ? > > Yes. I can only guess, but I think that 'block-before' means "before, in > the block progression direction". But now that you mention it, I see > that it only makes sense when you’re familiar with the idea of block > progression direction. That's the intent of Liam's proposal. Anyway, something that sounds strange when you first meet is probably better than something that you think you understand, but you get wrong. Also, I'm not a professional CSS user/Web designer, but my guess would be that padding,... in the block (progression) direction are more often used on blocks than on inlines. So the chance that a designer gets familiar with the meaning of padding-block-before and friends on blocks and can then apply that meaning to inlines is probably quite high. Regards, Martin.
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