- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:10:13 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2012-05-14 12:45 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > > Set 3: Outside/Inside/Items > > > > +--------X----------------Y------ > > A | justify-outside align-outside > > B | justify-inside align-inside > > C | justify-items align-items > > This is my favorite. > > For one, I value the swapped ordering. Having "justify" and "align" > come first makes more sense to me, given our general rules for how > alignment works. It also puts us slightly farther away from the > existing text/vertical-align properties, which is good. > > For two, outside/inside is very difficult to confuse, especially as we > introduce more things using the inside/outside pair. I'm actually not so happy about the *-outside terms here. The display-outside/inside distinction is about two halves of the same thing; here' align-outside and align-items are about the same behavior, on different things. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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