Re: [css-grid] Summary of Changes

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar@igalia.com> wrote:
> On 19/08/13 23:44, fantasai wrote:
>> As discussed at the Tokyo F2F, we changed the grid-definition-* properties
>> to grid-template-*, changed grid-template to grid-template-areas, and
>> added grid-template as a shorthand using Bert's syntax from Template
>> Layout.
>>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jul/0079.html
>>
>>   grid-definition-rows    -> grid-template-rows
>>   grid-definition-columns -> grid-template columns
>
> We have very recently renamed them in WebKit and Blink from
> grid-rows/columns. Although is not a big issue those renames involve
> some tedious work as it means changing a lot of test cases.
>
> I understand the specs are being tuned and polished but it'd be nice to
> know if there are plans for future renames in the short term just to
> avoid changing them frequently in the source code.

The names are stabilizing, but there may still be small tweaks as we
finish the spec this year.  I told Julien about this change (it had
been decided on back in June), and he decided to go ahead with the
renames.

Changing the test cases should just be a cross-file search-and-replace, no?

~TJ

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