- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:14:32 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 03/31/2011 12:23 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] >> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:03 PM >> >> Explaining how line breaking works. How pagination works. How the borders >> and backgrounds are applied to the broken boxes. Etc. I don't have any >> specific instances off the top of my head, but I've run across the >> terminology issue multiple times when working on CSS2.1 text. >> >> In many cases using the term 'element', e.g. "block container element" >> doesn't work because we also have to consider anonymous boxes, which split >> into multiple boxes, but are still all part of one box. > > Maybe it's OK for both kinds of boxes to just be boxes? They have the same > nature. If "war and peace" is split into two volumes, each volume is a book > and "war and peace" is a book, too, isn't it? Yes, but when we need to, we can distinguish "book" and "volume". So I guess the question is, book:volume box:? ~fantasai
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