Re: [css3-flexbox] Fixing the "replaced elements may or may not be inline" issue

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:22:42 -0700
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4FB460F2.8040608@mit.edu>

On 5/16/12 5:01 PM, fantasai wrote:
> I think it's okay.
>
> An alternative would be to define a 'flex-item' value for 'display',
> and make it compute to 'inline' except on children of a flex container.

For what it's worth, this would be very hard to implement in at least 
Gecko without disabling various style-sharing optimizations and hence 
significant performance and memory use penalties....

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:23:13 UTC