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

Thanks, works well. Good to see the redirect marked in the UI, and that you
can navigate back to edit the linking page if necessary.

--Mike S


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote:

> From what I googled, you just put e.g. #REDIRECT
> [[css/properties/align-items]] at the very top of the page (which requires
> Edit Source).
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> On Jul 24, 2013, at 17:36, Mike Sierra <letmespellitoutforyou@gmail.com>
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> I also agree the #2 solution is best.  This reminded me of an instance
> where region-overflow should redirect to region-fragment.  To do a
> redirect, do you move the page to the old name & then move it back, or is
> there some more efficient mechanism?
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> --Mike S
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Ok, I think that’s more reasonable too, so that’s what I'm going to do,
>> since nobody else has suggested an alternative.
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>> Cheers,
>> Lea
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>> On Jul 22, 2013, at 22:26, Jordan Pagels <jordan@realeyes.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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