Re: Flexbox Draft, with pictures!

On Wed, 26 May 2010 03:00:19 +0200, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
> I'm not saying "box" is great and would welcome other suggestions, but  
> flexing is a property of the children, not of the container.  The  
> container itself doesn't flex.  Calling something a "flex" because the  
> children inside it get flexed seems weird to me.

I think most authors (myself included) don't really care about the  
semantics and just want a simple memorable name. "flex" seems simpler than  
"flexbox" to me. The suffix "box" also seems weird as everything is a box  
already.


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Received on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 07:53:04 UTC