Re: [css3-flexbox] flex-pack distribute bikeshed

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>wrote:

> ± From: Tab Atkins Jr.
> ± Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:48 PM
> ±
> ± distribute:
> ± +---------------------------+
> ± |button     button     input|
> ± |button               button|
> ± +---------------------------+
> ±
> ± I mean, neither one's very great, but the justify seems *really* bad
> here.  The distribute case
> ± looks way better when the last line has more than two entries in it:
> ±
> ± justify:
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ± |button    button    button    button    button    button|
> ± |button button button button                             |
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ±
> ± distribute:
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ± |button    button    button    button    button    button|
> ± |button           button          button           button|
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ±
> ± I think justify is just *horrid* here.  Ideally you'd like it to look
> something like this:
> ±
> ± flexgrid:
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ± |button    button    button    button    button    button|
> ± |button    button    button    button                    |
> ± +--------------------------------------------------------+
> ±
> ± (We're debating behavior at this point, not naming.  We can use the
> 'distribute' behavior and
> ± call it 'justify', or vice versa.)
>
> This thread was confusing for me from the start. I first thought it is just
> about the name, but then there is a functional difference, defined I am not
> sure where...
>
> Of the options mentioned the one marked "distribute" makes more sense (it
> seems we are generally in agreement on that). Whatever it ends up doing
> though, for me personally "justify" seems a more natural naming - what I
> would try if I don't quire remember the syntax.
>

Sounds good to me. The only change to the spec would be the rename.


> Alex
>