Re: CSS: %% length unit and HTML's MultiLength unit. from Boris Zbarsky on 2004-05-11 (www-style@w3.org from May 2004)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 23:22:46 -0500
To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <40A05516.8010206@mit.edu>

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> I've found that HTML 4.0 specification already has concept of %% units. :)
> 
> Name of these units is *MultiLength*

MultiLength is more like a XUL-like constraint model than what you proposed.... 
  Note that you can't have "auto" widths with a multilength -- you have to 
specify an absolute or relative length for every item in your set.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:26:53 UTC