Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-multicol] Clipping of content that overflows a column

Not clipping in these cases makes sense to me as well.

Both the TR wording and the ED wording are problematic though, as 
neither of them defines the behavior for all cases. So, what are we 
after?
1 - in flow
2 - floated
3 - abspos / fixpos
4 - relpos / transforms
5 - ... someting else?

As discussed above, I seems that we have a reasonably good 
justification for 3 to not be clipped, as there are valid use cases 
that depend on that. For the rest, I am less sure about use cases, as 
overflow seems more of an error case to me. In that case, clipping 
**will** lead to unreadable content, while overflow **may** do so, if 
the overflowing content overlaps with something. Neither seem great, 
but the later seem better.

On top of that, maybe one day we'll have a pseudo element selector for
 the column box, and authors will be able to change the value of the 
`overflow` property on it. With that in mind, it would be preferable 
that the behavior we pick today can be explained in terms of values of
 that property. “Always clip” can, and so does always “overflow”, but 
having a few things clip while others do not sound harder to retrofit.

=> I think we should let things overflow without clipping in all 
cases.

(Note: all that is independent of things that overflow in the block 
direction in a way that triggers fragmentation, as discussed in [the 
next section of the 
spec](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-multicol/#pagination-and-overflow-outside-multicol).
 That's fully governed by 
[css-break](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-break/). We're only 
discussing the things that overflow without causing fragmentation)

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