RE: [css3-multicol] page-break-inside and columns from Sylvain Galineau on 2009-04-07 (www-style@w3.org from April 2009)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:15:10 -0700
To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5D97C7EB4695104AB6345E56FE356B1941054B16E4@NA-EXMSG-C125.redmond.corp.microsoft>

> OK, let us agree that there /are/ situation in which one might
> reasonably want to inhibit both page and column breaks within
> a single element, but that such constraints need to be exercised
> with considerable caution, since the potential difficulties in
> page makeup increase dramatically as the element's length grows.
Yes. Abusing such constraints will cause problems but that is not 
a sufficient reason to eliminate this type of flexibility imo. 
(There may be others though)

Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:15:54 UTC