- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:33:02 -0500
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Alan Stearns wrote: > On 9/26/11 5:41 PM, "Alex Mogilevsky" <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> I like the "top of page" rule. It would make no sense to me if clearance could >> be applied to part of a block. >> >> I also agree that use cases with overlapping floats can only occur from bad >> design or misuse of content, so it doesn't matter all that much what the >> result is... > > If it does not matter all that much, then why invent a new rule? I think > staggered content is always preferable to overlapping. I'm not entirely sure > whether staggering continuations are preferable to overriding author intent > by squeezing, but so far I haven't been convinced that the top-of-page > continuation rule is useful enough to warrant a new layout algorithm. I agree. I don't think we need this additional rule. It's not a clear benefit, so let's not complicate implementations with it. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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