Re: [css3-flexbox] & others: resolution for the display:inline-* proliferation

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.
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> 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.
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> 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)...
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> 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