- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:21:08 +0100
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
> > Why not just say it more simply and consistently? Like this:
> >
> > "Within a given column row, the height of column gaps and column rules
> > is equal to the column heights."
> >
> > That is more directly understandable to me. Why switch back and forth
> > between "height" and "length" to describe the same dimension?
>
> The spec seems to want to be agnostic with regards to vertical text, so I
> tried to be accurate. But yes, it would be simpler if "height" and "width"
> could be used throughout assuming default block flow, optionally with a
> single note somewhere about interpretations in other cases.
The spec also says:
The /column width/ is the length of the column box in the inline
direction. The /column height/ is the length of the column box in
the block direction.
So, it's probably ok to use "column height" instead of "length". I'll
make the change unless I hear objections.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Sunday, 21 March 2010 23:21:44 UTC