- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:01:28 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:36 AM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Paged Media: Paginating content into zero height pages or columns > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Scribe: Anne > > dbaron: don't > fantasai: what do you do? > alexmog: you have to avoid inifinite loops > fantasai: we can say it's undefined > Arron: don't render them > fantasai: you need to know when it ends > alexmog: every pagination engine i worked on forced one character on a page > alexmog: it would have a boolean somewhere "I've put something on this > page" > alexmog: maybe a border, or some other continuation > fantasai: if I have a 10px box and put it into 3 zero height columns > fantasai: what do I get? > alexmog: I don't think we should define it here > alexmog: 1px could be considered process > alexmog: could give up and continue to the next one > alexmog: we could say that the user agent should make sure there's a finite > number of pages I'm satisfied with alex's answer: "Undefined, but must be finite." It's a fundamentally degenerate case, so the exact rendering doesn't matter, so long as things don't break. ~TJ
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