- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:14:27 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 02/28/2014 02:58 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: > Hi, > > I know it’s not Last Call yet :) But what do you think of renaming "extent" a.k.a. "logical height" to "block size", and > "measure" a.k.a. "logical width" to "inline size"? > > I may be getting English wrong, but to me "extent" and "measure" are both synonymous to "size". The terms by themselves don’t > tell me which is which. I understand (after reading it in the spec) that "measure" is more specific in typography, but I don’t > know how much of the "target audience" is familiar with that. I wasn’t. > > Logical height and logical width, on the other hand, are horizontal-centric and kinda backwards when used for vertical text. > > Gecko uses "block size" and "inline size" internally, which fits nicely in the pattern of the existing > block-start/block-end/inline-start/inline-end terms. > > As far as I know, these terms do not appear in CSS syntax, so this change would not affect implementations and would be only > editorial. It’s still a big change, though; several other specs are using these terms. I'm okay with this. It's consistent with inline/block-start/end, even. And since, as you note, it's completely editorial, we could even do it as a post-CR update to CR, so it won't hold up the CR transition. :P Would like to hear from other WG members, though, what they think. (I'm sure they prefer something to measure/extent, just unsure what, exactly. Maybe someone has a preferred synonym of size.) ~fantasai
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