RE: [css3-multicol] pseudo-algorithm

Keeping the algorithm simple at the cost of having really bad presentations hardly seems like the right trade-off. Most CSS fallbacks have focused on doing something reasonable with unreasonable inputs, such as column-count: 999999.

Steve Zilles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Håkon Wium Lie
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:18 AM
> To: Sylvain Galineau
> Cc: Alex Mogilevsky; www-style@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [css3-multicol] pseudo-algorithm
> 
> Also sprach Sylvain Galineau:
> 
>  > I was wondering about that. Taking another look
>  > at this branch of the algorithm it certainly seems
>  > to be designed to preserve the specified column-gap,
> 
> The whole algorithm is -- and has always been -- partial to
> 'column-gap'; it may give new values to 'column-width' and
> 'column-count', but not to 'column-gap'. This is good, I believe. It
> keeps the algorighm (relatively) simple, and column gaps will
> typically be narrow so there isn't much space to gain by reducing
> their width.
> 
> -h&kon
>               Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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Received on Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:26:56 UTC