- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:35:02 -0700
- To: Ben Cotterell <ben.cotterell@antplc.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 2008-09-11 22:18 +0100, Ben Cotterell wrote: > Still it is very unusual. Nowhere else do you have to take into account > what something's height is going to be when working out its available > width. Well, it's more that if it doesn't work out, you retry at the narrower width. (You can't know how tall a line is going to be until you know what's on it, and you can't know what's on it until you know how wide it is. However, retrying at a narrower width can't mean you end up with more on the line, so the worst case is that you retry once and end up sticking with a result that's shorter than necessary.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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