- From: Jonathan Rimmer <jon.rimmer@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:34:51 +0000
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
While using flexbox in anger, I've encountered interop issues on scarily simple cases: http://jonrimmer.github.io/flexbox-interop/fixed-height-container.html http://jonrimmer.github.io/flexbox-interop/nested-flexbox-in-fixed-height-container.html Both appear quite different in Chrome vs. Firefox. As a developer, it's unclear how to proceed when you find problems like this. Is Chrome correct? Is Firefox? Are these known issues? Are there already bugs raised? Initiatives like Test The Web Forward[1] provide guidance on writing tests and raising bugs against non-conforming browsers, but it isn't clear what developers ought to do when they don't know which behaviour is correct; they just discover an inconsistency. What is the best place for questions like these? They seem to fall inbetween the kind of standards-usage issues suited to forums like Stack Overflow and standards-design issues suited to www-style. Maybe there's a need for a third forum? Such as WG-run GitHub projects focused on interop for particular specs, where developers can raise discrepencies and have them reviewed by the relevant spec authors and implementors and get feedback on what the correct behaviour is, and where to raise bugs to get non-conforming browsers fixed. [1] http://testthewebforward.org/ Jon
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