Re: [css-writing-modes] the caption-side keywords

fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote on 2015/09/17 15:21:33
> On 03/17/2014 12:56 PM, MURAKAMI Shinyu wrote:
> > 7.7 Table Caption Mappings: the caption-side keywords
[...]
> > I think it would be natural that the keyword 'right' of 'caption-side',
> > 'text-align', and 'float' would have all same meaning, the bottom side in
> > vertical-rl writing mode.
> > Also the keyword 'top' and 'bottom' of the 'vertical-align' on table-cell
> > mean block-start and block-end (right and left in vertical-rl writing mode)
> > obviously and for the caption-side would be the same.
> 
> The CSSWG discussed 'caption-side' at the F2F and decided to
> treat 'caption-side' top/bottom/left/right as logical values.
> 
> So it will be as you write:
>    top == block-start
>    bottom == block-end
>    left == line-left
>    right == line-right
> 
> (Note this will make these keywords inconsistent with their
> meaning in logical properties generally, where they are purely
> physical.)
> 
> As a result, we will drop the block-start/block-end values
> from caption-side.
> 
> Let me know if this is acceptable.

Yes, this is acceptable.

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Shinyu Murakami (ζ‘δΈŠ ηœŸι›„)
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