Re: [css3-flexbox]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:55 PM, James Elmore<james.elmore@cox.net> wrote:
> Hi, again.
>
> I have a nit with the naming in the specification. Unless other
> specifications have been improved since I last read them, 'box' and 'block'
> are sometimes used interchangeably. Even if all references change to refer
> only to 'block' for rectangular elements with padding, margins, borders,
> etc., and all references to 'box' only refer to flexible boxes, the names
> are still similar enough to cause confusion.
>
> I'm sure this was discussed, somewhere, but I don't remember seeing it here.

You're right that "box" is used in several specs.  box-shadow is one
that comes to mind immediately, and the CSS3 Box module (which has
nothing do with flexing, obviously).

> Would something like 'space' make sense to replace 'box'? The spec becomes
> 'flexspace' and the properties become 'space-align', 'space-direction',
> 'space-flex', etc., and this removes the conflict

I really don't like the word 'space' here, though.  It implies
something substantially different.  I wouldn't mind "flexbox" being
used as the actual word, though.

~TJ

Received on Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:31:20 UTC