- From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:54:57 -0500
- To: "W3C CSS List" <www-style@w3.org>
The terminology of this module strongly assumes the usual Western book binding practice of binding a book so that when closed with the cover facing the reader, the spine is to the left. However, as I understand it, the usual Japanese practice is to bind a book so that the spine is to the right, when the cover faces the reader and thus the odd numbered pages appear on the left and the even numbered pages appear on the right. Might it not be better to instead of speaking of left pages and right pages to speak of odd pages and even pages? Even if at this date work has progressed to the point that it is not practical to replace :left and :right with :odd and :even, at the very least, the explanatory text needs to be rewritten so that it is not so strongly left spine oriented as it is now.
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