Re: [css-align] Confusing Positional alignment values 'left' / 'right'

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Julien Chaffraix <jchaffraix@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > It was pointed out to me that 'left' / 'right' [1] in the Box
>> > Alignment specification are not the physical directions but refer to
>> > the line-relative ones, resp. line-left / line-right. AFAICT these are
>> > new values in CSS Box Alignment, thus they could use the line-relative
>> > values from writing-mode [2] to prevent this confusion. Did I miss
>> > anything?
>>
>> Is there a good reason to use "line-left/right" over "left/right"?  We
>> use left/right to refer to line-relative directions all over the
>> place, such as in text-align; we only differentiate the terms in specs
>> when necessary.
>
> which in our opinion is an exceedingly broken usage

Who is "our"?  And why?

~TJ

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