Re: Fw: RE: [css-flexbox] Summary of planned changes to Flexbox Module

By definition: calc() is getting computed when percentage is resolved so before computation of any flexes. 
Moreover: computation of the calc() is pre-condition (or input) of the flex algorithm. 
So calc(20px+2fl) looks very strange.

Consider this:

#sample 
{
   min-width: calc(10px + 50%);
   width: calc(20px+2fl); 
}

These two calc()s work at different moments of time as
'width' computation require min-width to be known for all children
of a container.

Technically this is still achievable by internally splitting calc() on just
calc() and flex-calc() but I do not recall anyone asking such feature 
in 4 years of using Absolute Flexes. 
Do you have examples where such non-trivial flex function is required?

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From: Robert O'Callahan 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:15 PM
To: Tab Atkins Jr. 
Cc: Alex Mogilevsky ; Adam Del Vecchio ; www-style@w3.org 
Subject: Re: Fw: RE: [css-flexbox] Summary of planned changes to Flexbox Module


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

  On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:

  > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
  > wrote:
  >>
  >> Not necessarily.  Say two adjacent margins are calc(20px+1fl) and
  >> calc(10px+2fl).  I think we could get away with collapsing their
  >> pieces separately, so it's equivalent to a single margin with
  >> calc(20px+2fl).
  >
  >

  > That's actually a spec change.


  A change to which spec?


The flexbox spec. My point is that calc(20px + 1fl) collapsed with calc(10px + 2fl) is not the same as calc(20px + 2fl) in general. It evaluates to 10px + 1fl + max(10px, 1fl).

But I think we can get away with genuinely collapsing calc(20px + 1fl) with calc(10px + 2fl). Probably.

Rob 

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