- From: Jen Simmons via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:58:50 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Looking at this fresh, I feel like we are struggling to make `initial` work in any sort of way, and it's just now working. CSS Properties are descriptive of the change that the property will make (like `font-size`), and not of the motivation for making the change (not 'readable-type`). Initial ends up sounding like an adjective, and gets easily confused with `first-letter`. It doesn't come across as a noun. I like what `line-span` does — it describes the context, affecting lines, and the result, setting a span across several lines. But as many have argued, `span` could be easily confused with its other meanings in HTML & CSS. What if we try to find other words to do what `line-span` would do. Synonyms for "span" include: interval length period space spell stretch term amount compass extent measure reach spread time `line-spread`? `line-reach`? `character-spread`? ??? Then you'd end up with `character-spread-align` `character-spread-wrap` or `line-reach-align` `line-reach-wrap` or something down this road... -- GitHub Notification of comment by jensimmons Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2950#issuecomment-438736819 using your GitHub account
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