- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:11:36 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Sub-box? Divisions? Chunks? Brad Kemper On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:14 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > 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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