- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:48:23 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
The draft which is currently called "CSS Logical Properties" describes
property names and values that are relative to the writing direction.
The term "logical" is used without a definition, nor without a
discussion. To me, it seems illogical to claim that these
properties/values are any more logical than other properties. Rather,
they should be referred to as being "writing-mode dependent",
"direction-dependent", or something similar.
A similar group of extensions are relative to the binding of a book:
inside or outside. Prince has implemented these, as in:
margin-inside: ...
margin-outside: ..
float: inside | outside
clear: inside | outside
etc.
http://www.princexml.com/doc/9.0/properties/
I believe the draft should also describe these sort of
properties/values. A more generic title for a draft, which would cover
all of the above cases, would be "formatting-dependent properties and
values".
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 6 April 2015 22:48:53 UTC