Re: [css3-writing-modes] height: fill-available's behavior is suboptimal

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> Neither, it should be 100px.
>>
>> The #outer div is width:min-content, so it asks all of its children
>> for their min-content.
>> > The #inner div is sized as 50%, but it's relative to an indefinite
>> > width, so it's ignored and treated as 'auto'.
>> > Under a min sizing constraint, 'auto' becomes 'min-content', so #inner
>> > also asks its children for their min-content width.
>> >> The inline-block is 100px wide.
>> > The #inner div is thus 100px wide.
>> The #outer div is thus 100px wide.
>>
>> Don't try to be too smart about percentages; that way lies madness
>> (like tables).  Percentages are meaningful iff their containing
>> block's size is a definite size.
>
>
> This doesn't match anyone's current implementation. Both Firefox and Webkit
> make it 50px.

Ugh, that's dumb.  I can see why one would think it reasonable to
consider 'min-content' as defining a definite width that you can
resolve a percentage against, but it's obviously wrong in situations
like this, when it produces both underflow and overflow.

But yeah, you're right, that's everyone's behavior in floats. Makes me sad. ;_;

~TJ

Received on Friday, 13 July 2012 22:34:08 UTC