- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:38:51 -0700
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Cc: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, Hakon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Yasuo Kida <kida@apple.com>
On Wednesday 2010-10-27 11:27 -0400, Koji Ishii wrote: > By looking at John and Murakami-san's proposals and Håkon's feedback, I would like to propose another alternative to the "logical" keyword: > > margin-top: of-block 1em; > > I hope this makes some sense in English, although question remains if: > > margin-left: of-block 1em; > > can points to the correct side of the block in LTR/RTL. I can't determine from my English skill, someone's help would be appreciated. But if it does, this same keyword should work in shortcuts like this: > > margin: of-block 1em 2em 3em 4m; > > It's just a change in keyword, but being able to use single keyword everywhere could help both authors and browser developers a bit. > > To extend this to inside/outside scenario, we could say: > > margin-left: of-recto 1em; > > Does this make sense in English? Maybe "in-recto" is the correct preposition, I'm not sure, but I hope you get the idea. I don't understand why 'of-block' would mean that the margins given are in before-end-after-start order rather than top-right-bottom-left. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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