- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:46:51 -0600
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > Ideally, column-width could take more than one argument. Imagine the > element is rendered with 4 columns. The author could specify the > optimal widths for all the 4 columns. > > - if the number of lengths passed as argument matches the number of > columns, then each length represents the optimal width of the > corresponding column in writing direction order > - if the number of lenths is lower than the number of columns, then > each length passed matches the corresponding column in writing > direction order, the last length passed also applying to the remaining > columns > - if the number of lengths is greater than the number of columns, > the lengths that match a column in writing direction order are > ignored. > > That would allow CSS Columns to match the behavior of wysiwyg non > markup-based editors like Word or OOo. I don't have any particular objections to this method of specifying column widths. It's simple, intuitive, and backwards-compatible, and seems to match the different-width use cases I can think of. ~TJ
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