- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:39 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, "Mikko Rantalainen" <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:
> Shifting the discussion a moment...
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> > I'm still working on this draft -- adding gr and fr units and such.
> > The draft will be announced on this list when it's ready for review.
>
> Are there any plans to stabilize the name of the flex unit across all
> CSS modules? You use "fr" (short for 'fraction'), and I know the Grid
> Positioning and Template Layout modules use "*". There's also an
> argument for using "fl" (short for 'flexible'), though I don't believe
> that usage is attested in any current modules.
CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3 uses 'fr':
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid/
as does GCPM
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/
The unit will stabilize as 'fr' unless this group (or the WG) revolts.
> I'm personally against "fr" as I feel that "fraction" or "fractional"
> is somewhat opaque to the actual operation of the unit, but I'm mainly
> just interested in seeing a consistent name be established.
Noted.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:07:21 UTC