- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:46:48 +0200
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Robert O'Callahan:
> > In continuous media, this property will only be consulted if the
> > column height is set to be longer than it would naturally be from
> > its content. Otherwise, columns will automatically be balanced.
>
>
> If this is the intent, I think a better name would be "column-overflow".
But it's not overflow, it's more like "underflow". That is, the issue
only arises when there's more real-estate than there is content to
fill it. In these cases one must decide whether one (a) fills in the
block direction, or (b) fills in the text direction.
> Your text is still a bit vague, though. Do you mean that UAs should compute
> the height of the columns' content with balancing, and if that's greater
> than the height of the columns element, then we consult
> column-fill/column-overflow? I don't really like that behaviour; calculating
> balance heights can be expensive, where "column-fill:auto" can be much
> cheaper, and it would be good to be able to avoid the expensive stuff if
> we're just going to fall back to the simple thing.
Good point.
Do you have a suggested text?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2009 22:47:32 UTC