- From: Neville Hillyer <n.hillyer@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:30:21 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
This is my first post to this list so I hope you will excuse any minor protocol infringements. For some while I have been concerned that CSS 2.1 'shrink-to-fit' cannot be made to work as many would wish except on a few old browsers. An outer box cannot be made to shrink around inner boxes except in the special case of the inner boxes all being on one line. I have produced a web page on this at: http://links.open.ac.uk/www/shrink-wrap/ I am not proposing changes which would affect existing designs but I am requesting an additional CSS 3 option which would invoke the performance explained on my page. I accept that this would add a small amount of complexity and, if imprudently implemented, may have speed implications but, nevertheless, I think this more intuitive method is sufficiently important to warrant this. Initial indications are that although those responsible may discuss this proposal it is unlikely to get much further unless others join with me and support it. -- Neville http://neville.hillyer.eu
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