Re: Media feature based on parent width instead of viewport/device width

Thanks for the explanation guys. I'll keep thinking on this in hopes that
we can solve it somehow.

Cheers,
b


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:44 AM, François REMY <
francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:

> |  ...
> |
>
> <thinking about a "sticky post" on the ML / on a blog somewhere about the
> general pitfalls of CSS or why your favorite feature may not be doable in
> CSS right now; the property-selector dependency would certainly make the
> cut for that>
>
>
>
> |  It's possible in the future that we may be able to add a more
> |  restricted form of layout that can have this kind of interdependency
> |  (its simplicity might make cycle detection + breaking more tractable),
> |  but it won't allow arbitrary constraints.
>
> To be more concrete, I've an (unproposed) proposal that would enable
> authors to create "local viewports" (display: viewport). One of the goals
> of local viewports will be to allow those kinds of usage. However, I agree
> with Tab that what you're going to win at one side, you're going to loose
> it on the other one: to introduce more freedom to the author, we introduce
> more constraints for the layout engine; there doesn't exist a "perfect"
> solution to this problem.
>
> Specifically, the current layout algorithms are made such that the layout
> of the children affect the layout of the parent; if we want the layout of
> the children to depend on the size of the parent, we need the size of the
> parent to be independant of the layout of the children. From a performance
> point of view, the case where the layout of the parent doesn't depend on
> the layout of the children is very interesting (particulary in the case of
> ininitely scrollable lists), which is one of the other motivations for this
> proposal.
>
>
> Best regards,
> François
>