Re: [css3-flexbox] intuitivity and width computation rules

On 1/14/11 11:02 AM, Oli Studholme wrote:
> * The obvious solution when making a flexible layout is to set
> percentage widths, but Firefox ignores percentages on width for
> flexbox children. This may be a misreading of percentages not being
> valid for box-* children as per the spec [1]

There's no misreading, actually.  Firefox's box implementation just has 
nothing to do with the spec so far; it predates the spec by about 10 
years and hasn't changed much since.  It happens to have similar goals 
and a similar name, but that's about it.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 14 January 2011 17:01:57 UTC