Re: [css3-grid-layout] Renaming implicitly named lines, reverse grid indices

On 02/14/2012 10:43 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> Yeah, we don't use the four values in Flexbox because Flexbox's
> properties are relative to the main/cross axis, not the block/inline
> axis.  I ended up with start/end because they're short for
> "main-start", "cross-end", etc., and those sound better than
> "main-before" or the like (and I couldn't come up with a good pair of
> unused words, either).  It's unnecessary to use the full names since
> the axis is apparent from context in each property.

Yeah, I remember you asking about using the flow-relative directions
as flexbox-flow-relative, and I thought that was fine. But using the
start/end pair in both dimensions isn't the same thing as what you
asked.

~fantasai