Re: [css3-writing-modes] height:auto with orthogonal flows

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 2. "7.3.1. Auto-sizing in Orthogonal Flows
> > If the computed measure of an element establishing an orthogonal flow is
> > ‘auto’, then the used measure is calculated as
> > the fit-content (shrink-to-fit) size using the initial containing block's
> > size as the available measure."
> > We should instead use the available size if there is one and only use the
> > initial containing block's size if there isn't one.
> > <div style="height: 100px">
> >     <div style="writing-mode: vertical-lr; height: 100%"></div>
> > </div>
> > Using the initial containing block's size as the spec currently says to
> > would result in the inner div overflowing outside of the outer div. It
> seems
> > clear to me that any developer would expect the inner div to be 100px
> tall.
>
> Agreed.


My original email wasn't 100% clear. I think the available size should be
use for percentage sizes as well as the size to use for the shrink-to-fit
algorithm for auto-sizing.