- From: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:57:49 -0800
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
On 02/17/2012 10:57 AM, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 06:42 AM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> > All flexbox algorithms deal with margin boxes. If it is not
> > made clear in the algorithm, it may need to say somewhere that
> > margins, border and padding are added to the preferred size.
>
> Ok -- thanks for clarifying that. I think that's not particularly clear
> in the current spec (though it makes intuitive sense).
In particular, I think the spec uses "main size" a bit vaguely right
now. In many places, "main size" refers to the content-box -- but the
flexbox algorithm section seems to use it to refer to the margin-box. I
think we need to be explicit when we use this term to refer to the
margin-box.
For example: the following text (from Flexbox Layout Algorithm, step
4.2) probably wants to say something like "sum of their margin-box main
sizes" instead of "sum of their main sizes":
{{
Collect as many consecutive flexbox items as possible, starting from the
first item, while keeping the sum of their main size smaller than the
flexbox's available space.
}}
~Daniel
Received on Friday, 17 February 2012 19:58:17 UTC