Re: [css3-flexbox] What types of box-tree fixup can occur?

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net> wrote:
> On 29/04/2012 04:25, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Anton Prowse<prowse@moonhenge.net>
> wrote:
>>> I read you as saying: table fixup occurs before flexbox does its thing,
>>> but block-in-inline fixup occurs after [flexbox does its thing].  This
>>> appears to be consistent with s/flexbox/block layout/.
>>>
>>> ... which leads to "block-in-inline fixup occurs after block layout does
>>> its thing".
>>
>> It's this part that doesn't make sense.  I never mentioned block
>> layout.  Why are you asking me a question about it in relation to
>> flexbox?
>
> Sure you did.  I'm asking you a question about it because you offered it
> as justification of a particular choice of behaviour in flexbox layout.
>
> Perhaps it's easier if you could just express what you wrote below in
> different terms?
>
> On 26/01/2012 00:14, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> For clarity, I have currently specified that table-fixup occurs
>> *before* flexbox does its thing, but block-in-inline fixup occurs
>> *after*.  This appears to be consistent with how these two fixup steps
>> occur in _block layout_, based on the limited testing I've done so
>> far.
>
> (My emphasis expressed with '_')

Oh!  Now I get it.

I just meant that, if you're in block layout, you can tell that
table-fixup occurs before block-in-inline fixup occurs.
block-in-inline fixup is *part of* block layout; it doesn't happen
*after*.

~TJ

Received on Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:50:00 UTC