- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:03:32 -0800
- To: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> > wrote: >> >From: Tab Atkins Jr. [mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com] >> >Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:14 AM >> >> # By using a vertical flexbox and ‘flex-align’, we can emulate the >> >> functionality of HTML's <center> element: >> >> >> >> Actually not exactly, "flex-align:center" is "true center", right? >> > >> >Sure, it's not exact, but it's pretty close. >> >> Ok, it's awesome that we finally have a way to implement <center>! >> It would be more correct to say "behavior similar to the deprecated >> <center> element" > > > I thought we decided that flex-align:center would be the usual, broken CSS > centering and that we'd try to add a new value for true centering that could > be used by both flex-align and text-align. Or am I confusing which centering > is "true" centering? The last talk we had about it was <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0265.html>, where I decided to stay with true centering, under the assumption that we can patch things later if we want safe centering. ~TJ
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