RE: [css3-flexbox] One final round of bikeshedding on property/value names?

± From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] 
± Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 4:34 PM
± 
± The Display Value
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± Fantasai and Anton don't like the term "flexbox", as they think it's 
± misleading, since it's really the children that are flexible - the 
± container element is just a container and is not flexible in and of 
± itself normally.  They don't have a good suggestion for an alternate 
± name, though.
± 
± Ojan recommends shortening the name further to just "flex", to match the 
± prefix that all the spec's properties have.

I actually like "display:flex". "box" suffix is not adding much value. And it doesn't matter if it is intuitive or not -- by the time somebody learns to use it, it will just be a name that is easy to remember.

Alex
 

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:57:22 UTC