On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/10/15 14:25, Koji Ishii wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com >> >> ... > We don't currently have block-direction options for 'float', but in > principle they seem like a reasonable possibility. > Floating in the block direction is what the CSS Page Floats spec is all about [1]. > If we use 'start' and 'end' now, and later extend 'float' to two > dimensions, I could see us ending up with 'float: start | end | block-start > | block-end', which seems unfortunate. ISTM that using the inline-prefixed > names from the beginning is preferable. Or would you suggest some entirely > different names for the block-direction analogs of inline 'start' and 'end'? > > So far we have used 'inline-start | inline-end | block-start | block-end' in the page float spec. Personally, I would find 'start' and 'end' confusing, but the terms are not very important as long as the same terms are used throughout. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-floats-3/ -- Johannes Wilm
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