- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:28:15 -0800
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: Julien Chaffraix <jchaffraix@google.com>, www-style@w3c.org
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Julien Chaffraix <jchaffraix@google.com> >> wrote: >> > It was pointed out to me that 'left' / 'right' [1] in the Box >> > Alignment specification are not the physical directions but refer to >> > the line-relative ones, resp. line-left / line-right. AFAICT these are >> > new values in CSS Box Alignment, thus they could use the line-relative >> > values from writing-mode [2] to prevent this confusion. Did I miss >> > anything? >> >> Is there a good reason to use "line-left/right" over "left/right"? We >> use left/right to refer to line-relative directions all over the >> place, such as in text-align; we only differentiate the terms in specs >> when necessary. > > which in our opinion is an exceedingly broken usage Who is "our"? And why? ~TJ
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