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

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:05:18 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> One of the people I follow recently posted the following on Twitter:
> <https://twitter.com/SlexAxton/status/519953582183809024>
>
>> white-space: nowrap;
>> whitespace: no-wrap;
>>
>> Don't pretend like you know. And when you look it up, don't pretend  
>> like it makes any sense.
>
> I've heard this complaint before, and railed against the dumb keyword
> myself.  (Flexbox originally used no-wrap for flex-wrap, but we
> switched to nowrap for consistency with white-space.)
>
> This is one of the few keywords in the language that doesn't use a -
> between words (the only others I know of being values we inherited
> from SVG, like currentcolor).
>
> 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?

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Friday, 10 October 2014 06:38:34 UTC