Re: [CSS3] Flexible Flow Module, proposal.

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.
>> I think the biggest limitation is not
>> being able to set width to "intrinsic width plus flex". The
>> limitations can probably be fixed, although the fixes might add
>> complexity or ugliness.
> 
> What about something like "width: calc(100px + 1fl)" or 
> "width: calc(100% + 1fl)" ?  I'm not sure exactly what you
> mean by "intrinsic width plus flex"; I'm going by analogy with
> the fill[l[l]] units in TeX; but this seems natural enough.
> 
> (very much -1 on "*" as unit specifier btw - let's not make the core
> lexical syntax any worse than it already is please)
> 
> zw
> 
> 

Flex units cannot be used in the calc() by its definition:
"The expression within the parethesis is computed at the same time as 
'em' lengths are computed"[1]. Flex computation happens after calc() is 
evaluated.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#calc
(BTW: "parethesis" here are "parenthesis")


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