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Re: [css3-flexbox] intuitivity and width computation rules

From: Rob Crowther <robertc@boogdesign.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:16:07 +0000
Message-ID: <4D2E3637.5030303@boogdesign.com>
To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 12/01/11 22:25, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> In that case you need to say what width that is, no? This testcase ....
> doesn't.
>
I know talking about intuition is dangerous in that it's always 
something personal, but the reason I'm trying to use something called a 
'flexbox' is because I want the width to be flexible.  Being required to 
set a fixed width on a flexible box seems at least somewhat 
counter-intuitive to me.

Rob
Received on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:16:39 UTC

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