Re: [dev-servo] Bikeshed on the naming of abstract dimensions

2014-02-28 Thread Simon Sapin
On 28/02/2014 01:07, Patrick Walton wrote: Hi everyone, In an effort to future-proof our code for bidi and vertical writing [1], I'm wondering whether we should go through and rename our directions used throughout Servo to correspond to the abstract dimensions used in CSS3 writing modes, I thi

Re: [dev-servo] Bikeshed on the naming of abstract dimensions

2014-02-28 Thread Simon Sapin
On 28/02/2014 10:37, Simon Sapin wrote: In general I prefer using spec terminology, but in this specific case I don’t really like either extent/measure (too foreign, not obvious which is which) not logical-width/logical-height (too "physical-like"). Actually I think this is worth changing the s