- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:31:07 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote: > This sounds very similar to display-inside/display-outside proposal. If "flow" here was replaced with "display-outside" we would get the same result. > > The difference in this proposal is to not allow control of "display-inside" without also setting "display-outside" to some value, potentially to be overridden by separate property "flow". It doesn't look like an advantage to me. > > The reason display-inside/display-outside is not formally defined yet is not because we disagree on the value of the separation, but because we need a detailed proposal that works through interactions of these separate properties with existing features and addresses alternatives suggested on this list (including this one)... > > I believe writing it up is on Tab's list of things to do, notably lower than specs that will have more dramatic effect when implemented. Correct on all counts. ~TJ
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