- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:19:04 -0700
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote: > 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"? ;) "upwards rightwards" is okay, if a bit long. Way better than "uprightwards". ~TJ
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