Re: Positioned Layout proposal

On 10/20/10 1:38 PM, Shelby Moore wrote:
> The pagination algorithm tests the containing block for intersection with
> the page boundary, then it flags the constraint and re-runs the layout
> (which calls the various constraint algorithms).  This repeats until there
> are no more intersections.

Uh... in general, you never got to "no more interesections".  So I'm not 
sure what you're talking about here.

> You optimize this for incremental updates, by making special case rules
> about how certain constructs can change layout when changed, e.g.
> identifying propogation boundaries, but you still need the generalized
> algorithm above for those cases that your special case optimizer can't
> handle.
>
> Am I far off base?

Dunno.  The one pagination setup in a browser that I'm very familiar 
with works nothing like this; the second one I've sort of looked at 
doesn't seem to either.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:11:21 UTC