- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:17:17 +0100
- To: Waldir Pimenta <waldir.pimenta@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Waldir Pimenta:
> > There was a discussion leading up to the current solution. One premise
> > is that one, by default, should have flexible pages that adapt to the
> > available space and try to use it. This sentiment is expressed in one
> > of the notes:
> >
> > The reason for making ‘column-width’ somewhat flexible is to achieve
> > scalable designs that can fit many screen sizes. To set an exact
> > column width, all length values (in horizontal text these are:
> > ‘width’, ‘column-width’, ‘column-gap’, and ‘column-rule-width’) must
> > be specified.
>
> I understand the premise, but that solution seems rather contrived (I'm
> aware I'm approaching a topic that was likely discussed at length, so I
> apologize if my words sound unnecessarily blunt). I noticed a previous
> version of the spec[1] had a "column-width-policy" property, which could be
> set to "flexible" or "strict", but it was dropped from the spec in later
> versions. Why was it abandoned in favor of the current specify-all-values
> approach?
Because you can achieve the same effect by setting one property: 'width'.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
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Received on Monday, 7 February 2011 23:17:57 UTC