Re: [css3-multicol] pseudo-algorithm

On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote:

> While it can be argued to be what the author wanted - the 
> column-width is auto but column-count and column-gap are explicitly 
> specified so the algorithm makes every effort to honor the author's
> request

That's the argument that seems most compelling to me. 

> - I'm not sure this is helpful as it means column-width:auto
> might yield poorer result when, for instance, the user snaps/tiles
> his window to half the screen space.

If I had 10 auto-width columns that got very narrow when the window got half as big, then at least it is not at all surprising. I wouldn't want my values ignored because the browser thought it knew better than to give me what I asked for. I should have thought of the ramifications before I tried to squeeze so many columns into a flexible-width layout. And isn't that what media queries on width are for?

Received on Friday, 11 February 2011 02:03:56 UTC