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

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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"?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism


> And why?
>

i can see it being reasonable to say that "in the context of text
alignment, left (right) is interpreted as start (end) in vertical writing
modes" but i don't believe it reasonable to say that "left means right" in
a bidi horizontal writing mode


>
> ~TJ
>