Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-grid] Decide on a name for `item-slack` (#10884)

tl;dr: `flow-tolerance`

I think "item" can be confusing. I usually need to look up to remind myself the difference between `align-/justify-` `content/items`

And in those cases, "items" is setting the default "self" property, so it's actually more related to the child than the parent. In our case here for grid-lanes, is there going to be a correlated `tolerance-self`? If not, I would say stay away from "item" as that causes a usage overload.

`tolerance` is a good choice. `margin` is already in usage and means something else (ie, this property won't change the distance between items like `margin` does). It's also a single word which I like.

I think of the ideas I've seen floated in the last couple days of posts here (when I joined in) is `flow-tolerance`. `fit` isn't bad, but we're deciding how items will be placed in the flow, not how close. `pack` is just used in the same way as `fit` imo.

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