CSS Flexbox comments

All,

I reviewed CSS Flexbox quickly just now, whose LC ends today. I didn't see any I18N substantive issues. In general, it continues in the tradition of excellent consideration by CSS of direction, writing mode, and such. I have a few nits that I observed while looking into the text, which follow. I will trackerize these and forward as personal comments to CSS-WG.

Section 2
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#box-model

Although the text refers in a number of places to direction in an appropriate way, it might be useful to explicitly say here that the 'start' and 'end' terms appear in some documents in a different location than the top/left and bottom/right side as shown in the illustration.

Section 4.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#abspos-items

Editorial Nit: Why are there three sheep in this section?

Section 5.3
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#flex-flow-property

Example 5 reads, in part, "Some examples of valid flows in an English (left-to-right, horizontal writing mode) document:". This is good, but slightly misleadingly phrased. Perhaps "Some examples of valid flows in a left-to-right, horizontal writing mode document  (such as found in the English language):"


Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

Received on Friday, 24 October 2014 19:25:20 UTC