Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-anchor-position-1] Inconsistent naming of `position-area` values (#12749)

We do have a consistent rule, fwiw: the `self` goes before the *logical* parts of the keyword, as that's what it affects. That is, "start" is a direction, and "self-start" is a direction, thus `x-self-start`. Similarly, "inline" and "self-inline" are both axises (but we dont' want to repeat ourselves and say "self-" twice, since we're guaranteed to draw the entire direction from only one box anyway).

But I've got no problem with reinterpreting this a little and pulling the "self-" to the front in all cases, so that we consider "x-start" the direction and possibly prepend a "self-" modifier, etc. So yeah, I'm cool with this change.

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