Re: [css-display] Refactoring 'display', got a crazy idea

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:07:16 -0700
• To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
• Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCTWNQtMU_Lv2Ec4J37B3wgZSpyR=sv-+LNPeZZYuGwzw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 May 2015 01:37:47 +0200, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
> wrote:
>> The term "flow" was taken from the HTML specs, where it indicates
>> a mix of inline and block content. This is consistent with how
>> CSS block containers accept a mix of inline and block content and
>> format them together.
>
> So the HTML spec intentionally moved away from "inline" and "block"
> terminology for its content models to avoid confusion with CSS 'display'. It
> seems like a bad idea to repeat the same mistake.

I'm not sure what you mean.  Can you elaborate?

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 2 September 2015 22:08:06 UTC