- From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:02:35 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 8:17 PM > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:56 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> > wrote: > > > > So I'd like to propose that the boxes that flex are called > > "flexboxes", and the containing element be called the "flexbox > > container". > > I don't like this change. > > For one, for consistency, it would require us to change the 'display' > value to "flexbox-container", which is much longer than it has any right to be. There is 'list' which has 'list-item' in it. It may be a problem that "flexbox" has "box" in it, which can be confused with other uses of "box". It could be "stack" or "row", but then the items have to either have a prefix or be "blocks" or " boxes" or "cells", all these being ambiguous...
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