RE: [css3-multicol] Overflow and Columns

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:11 AM
>
> Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> > * in interactive media, elements with overflow:scroll are not
> >   breakable across columns or pages
>
> I'd say it MUST be treated as "avoid breaks in this element", and if
> it's the only thing
> in the page/column then the UA MAY treat it as unbreakable. But if it
> can break it, we
> should not discourage that.

"avoid breaks" sounds good to me. Not sure what successful breaking would mean there, I'd like to see someone make it work...

> In the non-interactive case it should be possible to do proper
> pagination, and that should be
> preferred if not required.

OK. Not sure about required. It seems "best page break" should get more normative before this part is fully specified...

Received on Friday, 18 January 2008 19:39:48 UTC