Re: [CSSWG][css-shapes] CSS Shapes Level 1 Candidate Recommendation

> On Jul 23, 2015, at 9:02 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/23/15, 5:06 PM, "Philippe Wittenbergh" <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 07:37, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Embiggening is clear even to people
>>>> who haven't heard the word before (unlike cromulent).
>>> 
>>> I don't know if that is true for all, including all non-native English
>>> speakers.
>> 
>> What he said…
>> As a non-native English reader, I had to look it up (Dictionary.app: “no
>> result found”).
> 
> This is a compelling reason for me to change it. I’ll use “Enlarging”
> instead.

Not to be too nit-picky, but I’d suggest “Expanding”. “Enlarging” sounds like you are scaling it up instead of applying a positive offset. The version of Adobe Illustrator I have at home has “Offset Path” that is more or less the same, but it allows negative offsets. For border-image, we had ‘border-image-outset’, so you could say “Outsetting”, but that isn’t really meaning what the typical dictionary definition is: setting out on a journey (though Googling “offsetting path” can make it more clear).

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