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Re: Fw: RE: [css-flexbox] Summary of planned changes to Flexbox ?Module

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:47:47 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTin6Af2DnJtDsMV8YonCYMZXnH15Y-RFX-coXbKr@mail.gmail.com>
To: robert@ocallahan.org
Cc: Adam Del Vecchio <adam.delvecchio@go-techo.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Now, a question of intuitiveness.  In z-index, higher numbers make
>> boxes show up on top, or "first" conceptually.  Lower numbers are
>> *painted* first, though.  Which is the most intuitive notion of
>> "first" here?  That is, would you expect a higher or lower number to
>> put a given flexbox child first?
>
>
> Lower numbers should come first, because content order gives increasing
> z-order, so it should give increasing flexbox-order as well.
>
> Also, having elements appear in increasing numeric order simply makes more
> sense, surely.

Sure, just running a sanity check.  Sticking with the current operation, then.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 02:48:39 UTC

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