- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:02:30 -0700
- To: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, Adam Del Vecchio <adam.delvecchio@go-techo.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com> wrote: > TeX allows infinitely stretchable negative glue (more or less equivalent > to negative flex) and it is quite useful under some circumstances, > although its box model is different enough that I won't claim it'd > definitely be useful in CSS. What does negative glue do in TeX? > Speaking of glue, though, I'm pretty sure people *would* find use for a > CSS equivalent of "2pt plus4pt minus1pt" (i.e. "try to make this 2pt > wide, but you can stretch it up to 6pt or squash it down to 1pt if that > makes things fit better"). Flexbox allows that possibility for at least some things, as max/min-width/height and possibly padding/margin with the max() and min() functions. Font-size probably needs that as well, and those sorts of constraints are being discussed as part of text-align-last. Are there any other parts of CSS that could benefit from this sort of approach? ~TJ
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