Initial values for widows and orphans from Dean Jackson on 2012-12-10 (www-style@w3.org from December 2012)

From: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:34:25 +1100
To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-id: <1ECD16E7-D5EE-4905-8DB6-67648C1CC317@apple.com>

I just added support for 'widows' and 'orphans' to WebKit [1].

Unfortunately, in order to not break existing content, I couldn't use the specified initial values of 2. Instead I had to go against the spec and accept a value of 'auto' and have that be the initial value. In WebKit, this means do nothing (do not try to avoid widows or orphans).

What was the reasoning behind having such initial values? [2] [3]

[1] http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/137200
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#breaks-inside
[3] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#breaks-inside

Received on Monday, 10 December 2012 21:44:58 UTC