- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:29:12 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/#flex-direction says:
> # In the rest of this specification, the direction in which new
> # flexbox items are laid out will be referred to as the measure
> # direction (if a precise direction is required) or the measure
> # axis (if only the axis orientiation is required).
> #
> # The axis perpendicular to the ‘measure axis’ will be refered to
> # as the length axis, with the length direction being either a
> # line extending from the ‘before’ side of the flexbox to the
> # ‘after’ side, or from the ‘start’ side of the flexbox to the
> # ‘end’ side, whichever would produce a direction parallel to the
> # ‘length axis’.
>
> I find these terms quite confusing: particularly "length axis",
> which seems like it should be the main one.
I was copying Writing Modes terminology. ("length" has subsequently
changed to "extent" in Writing Modes at my request.)
> I'd propose instead the terms "main direction/axis" and "cross
> direction/axis".
Sounds good!
~TJ
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