- From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:10:27 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Dave Singer" <singer@apple.com>, "Media Fragment" <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
On 21-Nov-2008, at 12:46 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> there are plenty of systems that use TLBR (top left bottom right) >>> as well. >>> I'd say that using a 4-tuple without explicitly tagging which is >>> which >>> might be dangerous! >> >> Sigh:-) >> >> So, we should indeed somehow tag our rectangles, i.e. >> xxxx#xywh=100,100,10,10 as opposed to xxxx#rect=100,100,10,10 > > > Why not prescribe one single meaning and run with it? > > E.g. margin in css goes TRBL (yes, another version again :). > For people that cannot cope with that, there is > margin-left, margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, but margin is an > abbreviation where the order defines which it maps to. > > I just don't understand why we need to care about the way the order is > specified in other systems. People have to adapt their way of thinking > to the context always anyway. One fixed way will make it less > confusing IMO. Maybe I was unclear, but that was my suggestion too. But I suggest we not only decide on one option, but also make sure people are reminded which one we've chosen, by using a mnemonic name. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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