Re: [css3-flexbox]Percentage max-width, min-width of flex container's item etc. against indefinite size of the flex container from fantasai on 2012-07-02 (www-style@w3.org from July 2012)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:49:22 -0700
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: Sławomir Domagała <godlark.sd@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4FF1DF22.2070000@inkedblade.net>

On 07/02/2012 10:41 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Sławomir Domagała<godlark.sd@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I have doubts
>> 1. If max-width, min-width of flex container's item is<percentage>
>> and flex container has indefinite size, should the property be
>> ignored? Or should percentage be used against size of available
>> cross/main space (mentioned at #line-sizing)?
>> 2. If these proporties are ignored at point one, are they used at
>> #resolve-flexible-lengths (step 5)?
>
> Percentage widths and heights, when applied to an indefinite size, are
> officially undefined, as specified by CSS 2.1.  Hopefully we'll fix
> that in the future.

Maybe we should add a note pointing that out?

~fantasai

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