- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:13:17 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Scott Johnson <sjohnson@mozilla.com>, www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Robert O'Callahan: > > The explanation you give seems reasonable, but what happens if the > > continuous media isn't bounded, and column-fill: auto is set? I know that > > the spec states that it only applies to situations where the continuous > > media has a maximum height, but in cases where it's allowed to be > > unbounded, should the property just be ignored? In other words, for > > unbounded continuous media, should columns always be balanced? > > The spec says "In continuous media, this property will only be consulted if > the length of columns has been constrained. Otherwise, columns will > automatically be balanced." Unfortunately "constrained" is completely > undefined :-(. It's a term that we have a habit of using in CSS. I think you understand what is meant. Do you have suggestions for how to reword it? This would be an editorial comment, so it should be possible to add. > (Your use of the word "unbounded" is undefined too :-).) The > phrase "continuous media" is also obsolete now that we can have columns > flowing into arbitrary regions. I don't see how regions obsoletes the distinction between paged and continous media? > It also seems odd to have the fact that a > page-break might exist far away from an element with columns affect the > layout of those columns. > > I think it would be simpler to remove that paragraph and just make the > property always apply. This means when the element's height is auto and > max-height is none, and there's no pagination or region stuff happening, > column-fill:auto will put all the content in the first column, but that's > OK IMHO; 'auto' is not the default value, and authors should only use it > where it makes sense. The last call would have been the time to raise this. The spec is now in CR, so non-editorial changes are expensive. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-multicol/last-call.html -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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