Re: [css3-flexbox] auto margins from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2011-09-22 (www-style@w3.org from September 2011)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:16:55 -0700
To: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBtsZcsvOczMujyWAsTEkyRVgjYR95tX-EGUNbk4LmHvw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote:
> Currently the spec says to treat auto margins as a flex of 1. This seems to
> me that it adds complexity without any benefit. Using margin: auto to center
> fixed size blocks is a hack that we don't need to perpetuate to other layout
> mechanisms that have a proper way to center elements. It simplifies both the
> implementation and the use of flexbox if we treat auto margins as 0.

Where does it still say that?  I should have editted all of those out.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:17:44 UTC