Re: [css3-align][css3-flexbox] Value keywords for distribution

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:

> On 05/16/2012 04:35 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net<mailto:
>> fantasai.lists@**inkedblade.net <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>>> wrote:
>>
>>    There are two alignment keywords that distribute items evenly along
>> the flex axis:
>>    'justify' and 'distribute'. One of them aligns the first and last
>> items flush
>>    against the edges, and the other puts space equally around all items.
>>
>>    There's two problems:
>>      * It's not clear from the names which is which.
>>      * 'distribute' behaves the opposite of its behavior in
>> 'text-justify' (which
>>        aligns the first/last characters flush with the edges).
>>
>>    There are actually three possible behaviors you might want:
>>
>>    Edges flush
>>
>>      |[item]<-------->[item]<------**__-->[item]|
>>
>>    Equal spacing
>>
>>      |<--->[item]<--->[item]<--->[_**_item]<--->|
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you give an example where you'd actually want this behavior?
>>
>
> It was requested here:
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/www-style/2011Dec/0344.**html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0344.html>
>
> But it looks like the screenshot subsequently linked in the thread
> doesn't match that case, it matches "equal margins"...
>
> In that case, I'd suggest either 'distribute' or 'distribute-flush'
> for the first case, and 'distribute-space' for the second, which
> would match ruby-align and make it clearer which is which.


Meh. I don't think it's that confusing. You quickly learn which is which by
just trying both. distribute-flush and distribute-space are super wordy. I
don't feel strongly about it though. I'm not opposed to changing this if
others agree with you.

Ojan