- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:09:38 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > 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". Agreed that we should address inside/outside as well. Our solution for writing-mode-depending properties *should* generalize to allow an arbitrary number of property sets; in particular, the page-dependent are top/inside/bottom/outside. (Or do we want tobi order?) ~TJ
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