- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:15:43 -0500
- To: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. >> I think the biggest limitation is not >> being able to set width to "intrinsic width plus flex". The >> limitations can probably be fixed, although the fixes might add >> complexity or ugliness. > > What about something like "width: calc(100px + 1fl)" or > "width: calc(100% + 1fl)" ? I'm not sure exactly what you > mean by "intrinsic width plus flex"; I'm going by analogy with > the fill[l[l]] units in TeX; but this seems natural enough. > > (very much -1 on "*" as unit specifier btw - let's not make the core > lexical syntax any worse than it already is please) > Yeah, I think using calc here is an excellent idea. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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