Re: Flexbox Draft, with pictures!

On May 25, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
>> Given that "box" is shortest and seems to feel like it describes the
>> parent and not the child, perhaps we can just keep that?
> 
> The word "box" is already used throughout CSS to just mean "the thing
> in CSS that is the equivalent to an element in a DOM tree".  I think
> trying to use the term "box" to mean "flexbox" as the current draft
> does is a big mistake as it overloads the word confusingly. 

Yeah, I agree. I was thinking that 'display:flex-block' and 'display:inline-flex-block' would make it more consistent and understandable that using the term "box". Because it is a special kind of block or inline-block, right?

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