Stop using 'right' for a region name. about calipso HOT 10 CLOSED

I agree, this also allows a region to be moved (and not looking semantically incorrect/confusing), regardless of locale being RTL or not.

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Was going to assign this to myself...but I can't - must be reserved to project owners?

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Yes, "page-aside" would be good. ("page-" prefix since page subitems could feasibly have their own asides, which should similarly be subitem-name namespaced.) I would resolve it, but I'm totally slammed with other work right now.

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Perhaps 'east' and 'west'?

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@raisch Re-read the original comment about RTL (right to left) languages like arabic and think about your suggestion again ;)

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@adrinux, ;) My (albeit trivial) comment was based on the assumption that most "bidi" cultures will find recognizing the cardinal directions in context a simpler task than language specific signals like 'right' and 'left'. Consider how Google Maps defaults to a 'north==top' orientation for both Arabic ( http://maps.google.com/?hl=ar ) and Hebrew (http://maps.google.com/?hl=he) speakers.

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I think east and west feels right (no pun intended), and is more common in panel layout libraries (e.g. http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.2a/examples/layout/border.html), and happy to go with that as the default. I'll make some time this weekend to rename the references (unless someone else would like to have a go?) :)

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I don't see how east and west get around the original problem. That on multilingual sites a sidebar can switch from left to right, depending on language. So east will end up in the west and west in the east.

And then there is responsive design, where east and west may end up on top of each other.

For me terms that relate to source code order are the only ones that are helpful and flexible. 'First', 'Second' etc.

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Here's a high profile example:
http://amnesty.org/
vs
http://amnesty.org/ar

You can play with the language switcher yourselves, note how the sidebar switches sides. I don't think east and west swap sides.

(It has to be said this is a somewhat trivial issue, and not all that important right now – bit if calip.so were to take off, and be used for multilingual sites, it makes for a better Theme DX if you don't use regions with fixed directions).

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In the end I've gone with 'side panel'. Thanks for the comments and input.

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