Re: [css-text][css-flexbox] Let's just alias "nowrap" with "no-wrap"

> On Oct 10, 2014, at 8:09 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:05:18 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Anyone have objections to us just aliasing the value as "no-wrap"?
>>> That way, in a few years, people can just do the logical thing and use
>>> the value they expect, rather than having to deal with this wart
>>> forever.
>> 
>> 
>> I don't particularly like that idea. I think in general old syntax should be
>> left alone. Adding aliases is not zero cost.
>> 
>> But if this one thing is a major pain point for authors, then maybe it's
>> worth it. Is it?
> 
> I forget it almost every time I use the the stupid value, and I hear
> grumblings about it relatively constantly.  It's also the *very first*
> mistake on <https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes>.

If we do that, can we also alias 'border-radius' into 'corner-radius'? I know this confuses many people into thinking it is only for when you have visible borders, when really it's affect is just as dramatic on a filled-in background with no borders. It looks like it belongs with the other 'border-*' properties that are components of the 'border' shorthand, but it doesn't (it isn't).

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