Re: [css-regions] The region-overflow property

On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Vincent Hardy wrote:

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> On Oct 4, 2011, at 2:30 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
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>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:23 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
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>>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/#region-overflow
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>>> It is ambiguous (to me at least) in section 4.4 whether region-overflow:break causes clipping to occur when content spills out of the last region. I am assuming the only thing it affects is pagination at the last region edge, and that clipping is always controlled by overflow.
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>> Actually upon re-reading this, it sounds like you do expect the content that paginates as a result of region-overflow:break to be into some unrendered space when region-overflow:break is specified. That seems like fine behavior to me, but it should probably be specified a bit more clearly in the text.
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> Hi Dave,
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> After reading the all thread where you said you are fine with the current spec. and this initial email, I will add an action for met to be a bit more specific about the expected behavior.

Sounds good. What I've implemented in WebKit should match what's in the spec. I'd just make it a bit more clear that region-overflow:break results in clipping. The drawing makes it clear, but the text does not.

dave

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