- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:24:05 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> > 6) introduce min-column-width (probably in combination with 2)
> >
> > + fewer narrow columns
> > - would bring us back to last call
> > - more complex to implement
> > - there would still be lots of clipping
>
> Would it help if the minimum column width was just enforced in the
> algorithm, and not exposed as a property? We can always make a
> property to control it later, but for now, just saying that columns
> aren't allowed to shrink below 5em or something would ensure that some
> content always gets shown, and may reduce the presence of
> singularities in the algorithm.
Yes, we could probably avoid going back to last call if we hard-code,
or just recommend, a certain min-column-width at this stage.
It must be possible to override this minimum by setting column-width
explicitly; the hardcoded value should only have effect when
'column-width' is auto.
5em is probably a good guess of where it should be.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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