- From: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:39:03 -0600
- To: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- CC: Daniel Danilatos <danilatos@google.com>, www-style@w3.org, news@terrainformatica.com, Julie Parent <jparent@chromium.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
On 2010-02-11 10:00 PM, Patrick Garies wrote: > (A bit late since SMTP is blocked at school.) > > On 2/10/2010 11:43 PM, Daniel Danilatos wrote: >> Inferring orthogonal behaviour from line height or similar >> properties seems kinda hacky and potentially leading to all kinds >> of corner cases. I think it's clearer and simpler to have a >> property that defines exactly the desired behaviour (keep the block >> element open) and leave things like line height and min height to >> their independent meanings, without having to complicate them with >> extended interpretations > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding the issue. > > You seem to want an element--when it (A) is empty or (B) all of its > child elements are empty or (C) all it contains is whitespace--to > remain one line tall rather than "collapse" to a height of zero when > it has no content. If this is actually what you want, then all you're > trying to do is control the presentation of the element's height; I > don't see how this is "orthogo Oops. Looks like I sent an incomplete auto-saved draft instead of the complete copy in my Outbox that failed to send. Just sent that one now.
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