- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:48:30 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 03/12/2012 03:30 AM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] >> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:51 AM >> >> I think it's quite conceivable that we would want a reordering property for >> other layout modes. >> >> For example, in Regions, to order items as they are assigned into a flow. It's >> already a list of randomly-related elements; why not be able to rearrange them >> from document order as well. (I'm not suggesting we do this now, but it's a >> reasonable possibility imo.) >> >> Therefore, and since flex-order has nothing to do with flexing, I strongly >> recommend changing its name to 'box-order'. > > Reordering is expensive and can be really complicated. Regions don't have it any more btw. > > I suppose 'box-order' will be a good name when there is another spec that defines what it > does elsewhere. Then for flexbox it can be a synonym to 'flex-order', there are precedents > for that... Yes, but they aren't *good* precedents. They are unfortunate accidents of history, we shouldn't be making more intentionally. :) Imo 'box-order' is as good a name as 'flex-order'. Better, actually, because 'flex-order' makes me think it has something to do with ordering flexing behavior, which it does not. ~fantasai
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