- From: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:08:01 -0700
- To: W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
"Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > So, how about the repeat() block optionally taking a second parameter > which gives its personal width? Being able to specify a width in > absolute units would be convenient, but superfluous. On the other > hand, specifying a width in fractions or % would be very useful. The > current behavior of repeat() (acting like its width is Infinite fr) > is useful and good because it minimizes the effect of the implicit > 1fr at the end of the property, and multiple repeat() blocks should > act like they all have the same flexible width by default. Perhaps this is the use case for multiple levels of infinite stretchability, a la TeX -- I seem to recall that that came up last time we went around on fr units and no one could think of one. zw
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