- From: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 03:34:05 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
> > Leading is an anachronism because electronic rendering allows negative > > values (would negative lead be a form of anti-matter?). Line-space is > a more > > appropriate term, IMHO. > > Hear, hear. I suggested something along those lines a little while ago. > I suggested line spacing, font spacing and vertical spacing. We should > choose one of these terms, and stick to it. Baseline spacing is best. Incidentally, several other CSS terms are misnomers, the principal offender in this regard being margin, which of course is no such thing. I believe naming it this has caused no end of problems and misunderstandings. It is not a margin at all, but merely an offset. The margin really has go ntohing to do with the element at all - it is transparent, and is not used for most purposes - for example, marker boxes are positioned with respect to the border edge, whereas many people assume that it is the margin edge, a misunderstanding that would not have arisen if margin was correctly named as an offset. Equally, people have difficulty dealing with the concept of negative margins, a difficulty that wouldn't exist if they were called offsets. For example: ------------------------------- | | | | | | | | ------------------------------- This is an offset, which makes it obvious that the margin is transparent. It also emphasises the fact that the element box is the border edge, not the margin edge. ------------------------------- | | | | | | | | ------------------------------- ===== ---------------------------------------------------------- From Matthew Brealey (http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet (for law)or http://members.tripod.co.uk/lawnet/WEBFRAME.HTM (for CSS)) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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