- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:04:46 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > In preparation for a mild rewrite of Flexbox to make the concepts > expressed in it map to a cleaner model, I've gone ahead and revived > the idea of "display" as a shorthand. This is *long* overdue. I took > some text from an older WD of the Box module. > > The only significant changes are that I'm using more straightforward > names for the sub-properties (display-inside and display-outside), > handle the table and ruby values slightly differently (in what I think > is a cleaner way), and have changed the names of the block-inside and > inline-inside values to "static" and "text" respectively. The "static" and "text" names don't appeal to me: 1) Block and inline are fairly well known terms for the inside layout of blocks and inlines respectively. 2) The relevance of "static" and "text" is not obvious. What's static about a block? Its inside contents can certainly change. What's more textual about the contents of an inline? A block can certainly contain only text, and an inline can contain only non-text. Regards, Maciej
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