- From: western <western@westciv.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:26:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Tantek,
>Since you asked specifically about defining resizability of blocks, here are
>a few brief words on the "resizer" property which is part of that draft:
>
>'resizer'
> Values: auto | both | horizontal | vertical | none | inherit
> Initial: auto
> Applies to: all elements
> Inherited: no
> Percentages: n/a
> Media: interactive
I wonder if this isn't a little limiting. In application frameworks,
window items can usually be resized by side. This gives rise to a great
many possible resize options for an object as a whole. I haven't thought
through the syntax through at all, but the basic principle is that for
each side you can have one of 4 resize optionms
1) side is fixed while parent is resized
2) side stays centred while parent is resized
3) size moves while parent is resized
4) size moves proportionally while parent is resized.
using these 4, essentially an element can be made to grow in any way
desirable.
perhaps something like this for the syntax
Since you asked specifically about defining resizability of blocks, here
are
a few brief words on the "resizer" property which is part of that draft:
'resize-top'
Values: auto | fixed | centred | direct | proportional | imherit
Initial: auto
Applies to: all elements
Inherited: no
Percentages: n/a
Media: interactive
and so on for resize-left, etc.
Perhaps also a shorthand of resize, which takes 1-4 values corresponding
in the usual way to the top, left, bottom and right edges.
Just a thought,
John
John Allsopp
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