[css3-flexbox] Flexbox Terminology

There's an editorial thing that bothers me about Flexbox, which is that the
terminology is a little inconsistent with what we do elsewhere and with the
concepts themselves:

The thing that's a container is called a "flexbox", but the boxes that actually
flex are called "flexbox items". Usually we call the container box a "container",
and child boxes are called "boxes", not "items". We don't use "items" to refer
to boxes anywhere else, and I don't see any reason to start a new convention
here.

So I'd like to propose that the boxes that flex are called "flexboxes", and the
containing element be called the "flexbox container".

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:38:03 UTC