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by __jonas 941 days ago
That's actually a nice insight, I was so caught up in thinking in terms of screen space coordinates, it never occurred to me that it is based on cardinal directions.

It makes a fair amount of sense for the full shorthand with all 4 properties specified.

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I actually don't think it makes any sense to base it on the cardinal directions! But it's easy to remember and I have no preferred alternative haha
Doesn't help for those of us who learned the order North, South, East, West.