Re: [css3-flexbox] flex-direction values are confusing from Axel Dahmen on 2014-03-14 (www-style@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Axel Dahmen <brille1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:51:05 +0100
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <lfutv6$rmk$1@ger.gmane.org>

> That's an interesting perspective.  The naming is taken from existing
> usage, particularly tables, where rows are horizontal and columns are
> vertical.

This is quite contrary to my observation. When working with databases, 
spreadsheets and their corresponding frameworks, columns are always 
horizontally arranged (where, e.g., Column A is the leftmost column) and 
rows are vertically arranged (where, e.g., Row #0 is the uppermost row).

Even the HTML table layout (colspan, rowspan) works according to my 
observation, and, as far as I can see, in contrast to the flex-direction.

Regards,
Axel Dahmen

Received on Friday, 14 March 2014 12:55:27 UTC