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

On May 17, 2010, at 8:37 PM, L. David Baron wrote:

> On Monday 2010-05-17 15:17 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:52 PM
>>>> 
>>>> If this is a problem, you just make the flexbox a BFC, so it won't overlap the float.
>>> 
>>> Are you suggesting Flexbox currently is not BFC?
>> 
>> The current Flexbox draft says nothing about it, so I was going with
>> the assumption that it wasn't.  I can change that assumption if it
>> doesn't make sense for it to not be a BFC.
> 
> I think flexboxes should establish new block formatting contexts (as
> table cells do).  It doesn't make sense for floats inside them to
> try to move outside of them.

They do this in WebKit already.

dave
(hyatt@apple.com)

Received on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 08:55:49 UTC