- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:43:00 +0200
- To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?"G\=E9rard\?\= Talbot" <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Cc: "Public css-testsuite mailing list" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
Also sprach "Gérard Talbot":
> http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/opera/submitted/multicol/multicol-block-clip-001.xht
>
> The test uses 7 rules and 25 declarations. After removing the unneeded
> ones, I propose this replacement:
>
> http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/CSS3Multi-Columns/Opera/multicol-block-clip-001-GT.xht
>
> which uses 5 rules and 15 declarations.
Good!
> One mystery for me (I spent quite some time on this) is
>
> orphans: 1;
> widows: 1;
>
> declarations. If I unchecked 'orphans: 1' in Opera 12.16, then the
> layout changes. I have no idea what orphans and widows declarations are
> doing in all the multi-col tests since media, by default, is screen and
> orphans and widows apply only to page media. *_This seems like a bug to
> me._*
You're right that CSS 2.1 specifies that widows/orphans only apply to
paged media.
However, it makes a lot of sense to also make widows/orphans apply in
i multicol layouts -- even in non-paged media, no? Probably, the
multicol spec should address this.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 23:43:35 UTC