RE: [css3-flexbox] what's the rendering of floated content *inside of a span*?

± From: Daniel Holbert [mailto:dholbert@mozilla.com]
± Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:59 PM
± 
± On 01/25/2012 02:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
± > Following the convention of #item6.1 in Example 2, the span should be
± > wrapped in an anonymous flexbox item.  Floats don't reparent in the
± > box-tree - the float is still a child of the<span>, it just has
± > special rules for layout.
± 
± Cool, that's what I was hoping.  Thanks!

Yes, that's exactly right, non-anonymous flexbox items must be direct children of flexbox.