Re: [css-writing-modes] Rename extent/measure to block-size/inline-size?

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

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2014 07:14:55 UTC