Re: What to do with CSS properties that have been renamed?

For my two cents, I think that the second solution you propose of
redirecting to the newest name and including a note with previous names,
might be the best.

It is always amazing what people will manage not to read on the internet,
so I think that would help avoid confusion.


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote:

> This issue is more prevalent with flexbox. Several properties have been
> renamed over and over during the Working Drafts stage. For example,
> flex-align to align-items.
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> Do we keep separate pages for these, telling people not to use them in the
> summary and what they’ve been renamed to (such as here [1]) or do we
> redirect to the newest name, adding a note with older names?
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> I used to do the former so far in my cleanup, but it just dawned on me
> that the latter might be a better approach.
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> [1]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/-ms-flex-item-align
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> Lea Verou
> W3C developer relations
> http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou
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