Re: [css3-flexbox] alignment test

Oh wait, it looks like you're talking about the old flexbox spec.
 Disregard my email.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Tony Chang <tony@chromium.org> wrote:

> The current version of the spec doesn't say what to do with margin: auto,
> although previous versions said to treat it as flex(1).  We have been
> treating margin: auto as margin: 0.
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> I think the reason Tab gave for removing the margin:auto behavior was that
> it was redundant with what flex-align already provides.
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>wrote:
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>>  Trying to understand what exactly is expected from flexbox alignment, I
>> came up with a test that is exercising all alignment/size/margin
>> combination I could think of. The new spec (
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/#flex-align) is not yet specific
>> enough, but I am pretty sure we have agreed that we will want same behavior
>> as specified in 2009 spec (
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/#alignment), at least
>> I am not aware of any stated differences.****
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>> Attached is the test, including prefixed syntax for implementations I
>> know about
>> (-ms-box-, -moz-box- and -webkit-box-) and a screenshot of what I expect
>> to see. ** **
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>> Is my understanding correct?****
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>> Note that as far as I can read the 2009 spec, it does “true center” both
>> when aligned with margins and when aligned with “box-align:center”. Not
>> sure if it was intentional but it is what it defines, doesn’t it?****
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>> Also note that the test includes all cases in horizontal and in vertical
>> writing modes. I only included a screen shot for horizontal, writing mode
>> is there for completeness but it doesn’t make any difference for flexbox
>> algorithms.****
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>> Thanks****
>>
>> Alex****
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