- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:14:54 +0000
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[Håkon Wium Lie:] <snip> > Also from the minutes: > > > fantasai: column-count sets a maximum number of columns when used > with > > column-width > > This is correct as per the prose in the description of 'column-count': > > If both ‘column-width’ and ‘column-count’ have non-auto values, the > integer value describes the maximum number of columns. > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-multicol/#cc > > However, it is not correct as per the pseudo-algorithm which specifies, in > line 39 that the number of columns is only a function of available-width, > column-gap and column-width: > > N := floor((available-width + column-gap) / (column-width + column- > gap)); > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-multicol/#pseudo-algorithm > > I.e., the value of 'column-count' is not taken into account. > > This is an inconsistency in the spec, it seems. > > We can resolve it by: > > (a) removing the prose in the description of 'column-count' > > or > > (b) changing line 39 in the pseudo-algorithm to: > > N := max(column-count, floor((available-width + column-gap) / (column- > width + column-gap))) > (b) makes more sense to me if you aim to align the pseudo-code with the prose. Removing the prose creates an ambiguity imo.
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