Re: [css-flexbox] Computation Algorithm

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com
> wrote:

> Looking on this document in Mozilla:
> http://terrainformatica.com/w3/mozilla-flex-2.htm
>
> I am getting this rendering:
> http://terrainformatica.com/w3/mozilla-flex-2.png
>
> Two boxes here are defined as:
>
> #box2 { box-flex: 1.0; width:200px; background:gold;}
> #box3 { box-flex: 2.0; width:200px; background:red;}
>
> According to the name of the property ("box-flex") I would expect that box3
> (flex:2) and box2 (flex:1)
> widths will be in proportion 2:1. At least box3 should be wider than box2.
> But in fact box3 is smaller! That is completely unexpected
> as all other properties of these two elements are the same.
>

That's not how Gecko's box-flex works. box3 is twice as flexible as box2,
whether you're increasing or decreasing from the preferred width.

Rob
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