+-AFs-css3-flexbox+-AF0- flex-direction values are confusing from Axel Dahmen on 2014-03-12 (www-style@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Axel Dahmen <brille1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:50:27 +0100
To: www-style+AEA-w3.org
Message-ID: <lfps70$87e$1@ger.gmane.org>

I personally tend to consider the flex-direction values as being quite 
confusing.

The term +ACI-row+ACI- (or +ACI-rows+ACI-) is usually associated with vertical layout while 
+ACI-column+ACI- (or +ACI-columns+ACI-) is mainly associated with horizontal layout. But for 
flex-direction, both terms are used quite to the contrary.

I would like to suggest to rename these properties appropriately to their 
counterparts.
... or even rename the value +ACI-row+ACI- with +ACI-horizontal+ACI- and +ACI-column+ACI- with 
+ACI-vertical+ACI-.

So the list of values would be

(a)
    column
    column-reverse
    row
    row-revers

(b)
    horizontal
    horizontal-reverse
    vertical
    vertical-reverse

RFC,
Axel Dahmen

Received on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:50:55 UTC