[css-regions] Named Flows, Elements and Box Generation

Hey all,

As I mentioned in last week's telecon, I've been posting about how named
flows interact with overflow:fragments. An overflow:fragments element can
be useful at the end of a region chain [1]. Adding a named flow to an
overflow:fragments element enhances scriptability [2]. And named flows can
be used to link overflow:fragments elements together [3].

All of this shows how overflow:fragments can be used as a box-generation
mechanism for named flows. And each of these cases has at least one
variant that does not add region elements to the markup. So I think this
shows that the issue [4] on box generation for regions can be addressed
with overflow:fragments and other box-generation mechanisms we define in
the future (such as page template or grid template slots).

The way that named flows and overflow:fragments interact is through
applying flow-from to the overflow:fragments element itself. It *requires*
that flow-from applies to elements. So I think this shows that the
elements issue [5] should be closed as well. If anything, we need to
restrict flow-from from applying to ::nth-fragment() pseudo-elements in
the Overflow draft, in exactly the same way that the content property does
not apply to these particular pseudo-elements. The flow-from property
needs to apply to elements to interact properly with the rest of CSS.

Thanks,

Alan

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0239.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0250.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0266.html
[4] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15733
[5] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16858

Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 00:39:21 UTC