- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:28:00 -0400
- To: shelby@coolpage.com
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 10/19/10 12:31 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/19/10 12:14 PM, Shelby Moore wrote: >> If pagination algorithm has been designed to be sufficiently orthogonal, >> then afaics it should also not be touched for this proposal. Are you >> concerned or aware that some layout engines may not be coded with >> sufficiently orthogonal (non-spaghetti) design? > > "All of them", I would expect. I should expand on this. The fact that they are thus coded is a _feature_ not a bug. Any sort of sane pagination algorithm not only depends on the layout but also modifies the layout (for a simple example, the heights of auto-height blocks end up depending on where on the page the top content edge of the block appears). As such it needs to hook into the layout process, and complications to the layout model also complicate pagination. -Boris
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