Re: [css-writing-modes] Rename extent/measure to block-size/inline-size? from fantasai on 2014-03-12 (www-style@w3.org from March 2014)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:27:39 -0700
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <5320ED6B.9020302@inkedblade.net>

On 03/12/2014 11:22 AM, Chris Lilley wrote:
>
> 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 think we veered away from length (one early proposal was "length/breadth"
with breadth being the inline dimension) because it's confusable with
<length>.

~fantasai

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