655065 - Add a -moz-orient CSS property

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Attachment: Patch v1

It's needed by bug 638540 and very similar to -moz-box-orient.

Comment 1

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

If one of you think he can handle the review in a few days, could he cancel the other review requests?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 530359 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

r=me

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Why do we want a new CSS property for this?

Comment 4

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

If it's only for the progress element, I think -moz-orient is too generic a name. How about -moz-progress-orient? Or how about just reusing -moz-box-orient? Does Webkit have a version of this, and what did they call it?

Comment 5

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Why do we want a new CSS property for this?

That was the conclusion of the discussion in the CSS WG mailing list: we (you, Boris and I) had decided to use an HTML attribute and someone pointed that using a CSS property might be better (see the discussion for more details).

(In reply to comment #4)
> If it's only for the progress element, I think -moz-orient is too generic a
> name. How about -moz-progress-orient? Or how about just reusing
> -moz-box-orient? Does Webkit have a version of this, and what did they call
> it?

This is going to be used for <input type='range'> and <meter>. Webkit doesn't have such a property.
IMO, it would be better to make -moz-box-orient merged into -moz-orient instead of the opposite. Though, both are prefixed so we can see that later, can't we?

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

That www-style thread didn't really have a conclusion, but I can see that it drifted towards having explicit orientation control using a property.

Is there a reason to not just reuse box-orient here?

Comment 7

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Is there a reason to not just reuse box-orient here?

If you guys believe we should just use box-orient, I will follow you.
Boris and David, what's your opinion?

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That seems fine to me.

Comment 9

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

To me, box-orient seems a misleading name given that box-* properties are used for the box model and here, it's not really related to it AFAICT. In addition, box-orient accept four values and two of them would have no meaning for the form widgets. And, in the future, we might want to add new values to -moz-orient (like vertical but beginning from the top), which might not work with box-orient.

Comment 10

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Those are good points.

I think I'll leave it up to David to decide what to do here :-).

Comment 11

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Pushed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a756a95aaa31

David, if you think we should remove this property and use -moz-box-orient instead, let me know and I will back out this patch.

Comment 12

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Documented:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/orient

And mentioned on Firefox 6 for developers.