- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:43:30 -0400
- To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
On 8/9/10 7:35 AM, Anton Prowse wrote: > Yes, there's a line break opportunity after the first span, but since the > second span's margin area width is negative, I don't think I'd want that > opportunity to be taken; the second span (and indeed the inline-block) > still fits without widening the line box further. I'm not convinced that that this is a good criterion for situations like this, where the line box has already been forced to be wider than it should be... > As for use cases, I guess if someone's gone to the trouble of trying to get the second span > to completely overlap the first, it's because that overlap is important > to them, and should be preserved even when the first span overflows its > containing block. I can't tell whether your indexing is off here, or your numbers, but as stated the sentence above makes no sense. > Either way, this relationship between overflow and fitting needs to be > specified (and be implementable) Amen. -Boris
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