RE: flexbox and box-sizing from Alex Mogilevsky on 2012-02-23 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:59:44 +0000
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Philip Walton <philip@philipwalton.com>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <D51C9E849DDD0D4EA38C2E539856928412E783E7@TK5EX14MBXC214.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

± From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] 
± Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:33 AM
± 
± The spec is *supposed* to handle box-sizing, but I could easily have 
± accidentally omitted handling it from important parts of the 
± algorithm.
± 
± I'll have to dive in and see if this is a spec bug or an 
± implementation bug.  (Go ahead and file a bug on WebKit anyway - in 
± either case, our behavior will have to change.)

Right, box-sizing is supposed to just work. Considering that flexbox algorithms deal with margin boxes, I don't think it needs to change anything to make it work.

Received on Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:00:30 UTC