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

On 12/03/2014 18:22, Chris Lilley wrote:
>> By the way, do you have an opinion on what "something" should be in
>> "inline-something" and "block-something"? Some options are size,
>> dimension, length, breadth, extent, ...
> That depends. Tell we what happens in vertical text.  Breadth is
> unlikely to work there since it implies a horizontal measurement.
> Length would work for both inline and block in both horizontal and
> vertical writing modes, I think.

I mentioned breadth because it’s used in CSS Grid, where <track-breadth> 
means either a column width or a row height.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-grid/#track-sizing

(I had never encountered this word before seeing it in CSS Grid, but I’m 
not a native English speaker.)

-- 
Simon Sapin

Received on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:05:21 UTC