- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:28:08 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:58 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com> wrote:
>> The resize property is defined to take the following values:
>> none | both | horizontal | vertical | inherit
>>
>> I was considering whether it would be a good idea to put something like this
>> in UA stylesheets:
>>
>> textarea { resize:both }
>> input { resize:horizontal }
>>
>> For textarea there's no problem, but for input, it would not do what you
>> want in a page using a vertical
>> writing mode.
>>
>> I propose that we replace horizontal and vertical by logical directions.
>
> I'm fine with adding logical directions. I'm also fine with removing
> the physical directions, if it's possible to do so.
I think there are many situations where you would still need physical. For instance, images, video, iframes, scrollable content areas (especially for non-text content), or really anything where the author used 'width' and 'height' and wants it resizable in only one direction.
>
> What names would we use? We unfortunately don't have a snappy name
> for the logical axises. We use various terms - block/inline-axis,
> row/column, others?
>
> ~TJ
>
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