Re: % is not a valid unit for border-width

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/1/5 Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Can you show an example of a responsive layout that would use
>> percentage borders?  In my head, I think you'd more often actually
>> want a standard border, but have some way to let your other
>> percentages respond to it and only calculate from the remaining space.
>
> I don’t understand why to justify a use case we have to find examples
> (in the wild). If something cannot be done (and produce predictable
> results), then no one will use it and there will be no examples. How
> are we supposed to find examples to justify something that doesn’t yet
> exist?

I didn't ask for an example in the wild.  A reasonable constructed
example with an explanation of how percentage border widths would help
will suffice.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:25:35 UTC