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Bug 15896 - css3-writing-modes: "inline axis" and "block axis" seem mixed up
Summary: css3-writing-modes: "inline axis" and "block axis" seem mixed up
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2012-02-05 00:28 UTC by Samuel Bronson
Modified: 2012-02-05 00:28 UTC (History)
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Description Samuel Bronson 2012-02-05 00:28:06 UTC 
I got very confused trying to make sense of this:

> inline-axis
>     The axis in the block dimension, i.e. the vertical axis in horizontal
>     writing modes and the horizontal axis in vertical writing modes.
>
> block-axis
>     The axis in the inline dimension, i.e. the horizontal axis in horizontal
>     writing modes and the vertical axis in vertical writing modes.

Then I noticed that not only are these in the opposite order from the definitions of "block dimension" and "inline dimension", but "inline-axis" refers to the "block dimension" and "block-axis" refers to "inline dimension". This convinces me that the text should be:

> block-axis
>     The axis in the block dimension, i.e. the vertical axis in horizontal
>     writing modes and the horizontal axis in vertical writing modes.
>
> inline-axis
>     The axis in the inline dimension, i.e. the horizontal axis in horizontal
>     writing modes and the vertical axis in vertical writing modes.