- From: David R. Herz <WPD@theherzes.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:38:12 +0200
- To: "'WebPlatform Public List'" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
I made this comment under a different title which received no response. If my perspective is of no value to this community, I'd prefer someone tell me. I came here because I figured it would be nice to learn to code properly if I am learning anyway. My basic point here is that a standard should define all relevant terms of art, without which it leaves people guessing. Now that the CSS properties are essentially wrapped up, I figured I'd give them a test run from the newbie's perspective. I just wanted to take one at a time and stick them in a style sheet to see what happens. I don't know if it helps or if I am just outside of the target audience, but for me certain things are not clear. I include the first few properties below. If this is helpful, I'll continue. Feedback is appreciated. align-content Aligns a flex container's lines within the flex container when there is extra space in the cross-axis, similar to how justify-content aligns individual items within the main-axis. I don't know what a flex container or flex item (from http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/flex) is. The term is not defined in any glossary on the site. align-items Sets the default alignment in the cross axis for all of the flex container's items, including anonymous flex items, similarly to how justify-content aligns items along the main axis. Same with cross and main axis. align-self Allows the default alignment to be overridden for individual flex items. alignment-adjust This property allows precise alignment of elements, such as graphics, that do not have a baseline-table or lack the desired baseline in their baseline-table. With the alignment-adjust property, the position of the baseline identified by the alignment-baseline can be explicitly determined. It also determines precisely the alignment point for each glyph within a textual element. I get what the baseline is (thanks to http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/glossary/main), but that doesn't help me with a baseline-table. alignment-baseline Conducting a search, a discussion of this comes up under SVG, but there is no CSS reference to give me a clue as to how I would use this, or what happens around this, although I suppose I could play to figure this out a bit. David R. Herz wpd@theherzes.com
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