Re: [css-grid] Span & faulty line names

> > I was off a few days, but I would still like to reformulate another 
> > proposal
> > here now I understand your reasoning better.
> >
> > What if instead we specified that "span 3 invalid-name" spans to :
> > - the minimum of
> > -- a span of 3 lines (with no name constraint)
> > -- the last line of the explicit grid
> >
> > With this algorithm, we try to preserve as much as possible the two
> > assumptions of this kind of span:
> > -- at least three lines will be spanned
> > -- the span will not cross the explicit grid boundaries
> >
> > While this is open for debate, I would propose to apply this rule in two
> > cases:
> > - no line is named "invalid-name" at all.
> > - no line is named "invalid-name" after the line from which the span is
> > computed.
> > (currently, the second one reverts to a span of 1 after error 
> > correction)
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> So, fantasai and I discussed your proposal and reviewed the
> error-handling rules again, and we think we've got a simpler proposal:
> assume that all lines outside the explicit grid have all possible
> names.
>
> This lets us be consistent in all the error-handling cases where there
> aren't enough lines of a given name, which makes the whole thing
> easier to understand.  It's also more noticeably wrong, which is an
> acceptable outcome here - if the author fat-fingers a line name, the
> item will get positioned somewhere obviously weird, and they'll be
able to correct it.
>
> We've gone ahead and committed this change to the draft.  Thoughts?
>
> ~TJ and fantasai

It looks ok to me, thanks.

That being said, there are two edge case that I don't see solved clearly 
with the new rules, and it is the following ones:

    GRID-ITEM-1 { grid-row: -10 line-name }
    GRID-ITEM-2 { grid-row-start: span 10 line-name; grid-row-end: 
last-line }

If there are only 9 lines named "line-name", what does it do? As far as I 
know, we can't add more implicit lines at the beginning of the grid. So, 
should we specify that it maps to the first line of the grid instead?

Received on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:44:17 UTC