- From: Grant, Melinda <melinda.grant@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:23:08 -0000
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
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Well, as an exercise to begin the exorcism of 'undefined''s in our specs [1], CSS3 Paged Media (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page) has the following items undefined: Section 3.5: "Behavior for properties not listed here or in Appendix A is undefined." At the last f2f, we discussed how to word things so that all the properties *mandated* for support within the page or margin context were 2.1 properties, while allowing CSS3 properties to apply without needing to rev the Paged Media Module whenever a new property was added that should apply within the page or margin context. [2] We chose (based on Marcus' suggestion I think ;-) to explicitly say other properties are 'not defined' in these contexts. Proposed change: "CSS 2.1 properties not listed here or in Appendix A are ignored within page and margin contexts." Section 3.7: "This specification does not define how boxes positioned outside the page box are handled. Possibilities include discarding them or creating page boxes for them at the end of the document." One possible fix: "Boxes positioned completely or partially outside the page box may be: o omitted (any portion of a box positioned outside the page box is not printed); or o 'tiled'; that is, placed in one or more page boxes generated after other content at the same vertical offset from the origin and before other content at a greater vertical offset from the origin; or o placed in page boxes added for them at the end of the document. " But the devil's in the details of that second bullet (how are such pages numbered? Which are generated first - pages off to the right or off to the left and in what order? What about content empty pages that have content off to the right or the left?), and I'm not eager to go there, because I don't think anyone is desirous of implementing that functionality. We could lock behavior down to the first and third bullets, I guess. Other options we should explicitly add? Thoughts? Best wishes, Melinda [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0054.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2007JanMar/0525.html
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