- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:30 +0200
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "CSS WG" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:03:08 +0200, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > It was rejected because the behavior of using ellipsis on every > horizontally overflowing line in a case that also has vertical > overflow has valid use cases. E.g. a text editor may choose to > indicate which lines overflow the viewport in the horizontal > direction, and not give any special indication of overflow in > the vertical direction. > > There seemed to be agreement if an indicator of vertical overflow > was needed, a separate property would be required. It was also > noted that this would be useful on paged media. > > It appears none of this was minuted, however. :/ And what was the reason again this could not be dependent on the values of overflow-x and overflow-y? For the text editor case you could e.g. have overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:auto. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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