- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:03:24 +0100
- To: Phil Cupp <pcupp@microsoft.com>
- CC: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 02/14/2012 10:28 PM, Phil Cupp wrote: > The reason the alignment values for rows and columns are all the same in the grid is because they do the same thing, and given that each track has only two edges it seemed unnecessary to use four names. > > Do you know how many places the pattern below occurs? > > before > start + end > after The before/after pair isn't used in many places (just a few, like caption-side), because so far it hasn't been necessary (since only horizontal writing modes existed) and because a number of places that need logical directions actually need the over/under pair instead. But note that if we ever wind up with logical properties, before/after will be nearly everywhere top/bottom is now. E.g. margin-before/margin-after, etc. ~fantasai
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