- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:55:57 -0700
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- CC: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Robert O'Callahan wrote: > How about this text: > > 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". > > 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. This would break a lot of use cases. Currently we assume that if you set a fixed height, this is "constrained", and column balancing doesn't happen unless requested. I don't want to change that behavior here, it's useful. ~fantasai
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