Re: [css3-flexbox] multiline flex orthogonal

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Rossen Atanassov <
Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Reading through the current flexbox spec I see that we're treating the
> flex flow as orthogonal only based on the writing mode. This is fine for
> writing mode differences but I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to
> multiline flex that has a main axis orthogonal to its container?
>
> The test case below [1] show that exact problem and it seems like Webkit
> currently does something close to treating it as orthogonal but not quite.
> Opera and IE are currently in agreement with the spec but the behavior is
> not good.
>

It's a bug that WebKit doesn't treat the inner box as orthogonal.  We have
a FIXME in the code for it, we just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.


> Can we add a clarification about this if we agree on that behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Rossen
>
> [1] http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=2022
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