- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:18:40 -0800
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 12/1/11 5:07 PM, "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach Alan Stearns: > >> Take a look at this file. It has a div floated left with six lines of text >> in a 2-column layout containing eight lines of text >> >> http://hg.csswg.org/test/raw-file/50587184a512/contributors/adobe/incoming/fl >> oatLeftMulticolBreak.html >> >> In WebKit the columns are balanced by splitting the float in two. In Gecko >> and Opera the float remains intact and the columns are not balanced. Should >> I expect more interop here, or is this a vague area that css3-pagination is >> meant to resolve? >> >> I am strongly in favor of splitting the float in an instance like this. > > What if the float was an image? I assume a single box float would not split except under extreme circumstances (such as a huge image being printed on media smaller than its dimensions). The float in my file intentionally has lots of line box boundaries to split apart. Alan
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