- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:16:58 +0000
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Simon Fraser [mailto:smfr@me.com] > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Brian Manthos > <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> Again > >> right (adj): rightwards > >> makes far more sense to me than > >> right (adj): leftwards > > > > Brian, would you find it acceptable to switch the keywords over to > > upwards/rightwards/uprightwards/etc? > > Ugh, I forgot the corner variants. "Uprightwards" is horrible. "top left to > bottom right" is OK, and if we can fall back to allowing the omission of "to" > and everything after, I'm happy. I think "upwards rightwards" and "rightwards upwards" are both fine. What I took issue with was "bottom left" meaning "upwards rightwards". I was fine with "up right" meaning "upwards rightwards". Compass directions* would be simplest, but that would apparently incur issues with globalization as per prior mails on this topic. * N=0deg, NE=45deg, etc. Since we're apparently fond of bearing angles, perhaps "port" and "starboard" instead of "leftwards" and "rightwards"? ;)
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