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

Ok, I think that’s more reasonable too, so that’s what I'm going to do, since nobody else has suggested an alternative.

Cheers,
Lea

Lea Verou
W3C developer relations
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On Jul 22, 2013, at 22:26, Jordan Pagels <jordan@realeyes.com> wrote:

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