- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:10:19 +0000
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
- CC: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
[Simon Sapin:] > Yes, and don't forget the various layout modes. CSS 2.1 has not only > inlines and blocks but also inline-blocks, floats, absopos, tables (fixed > layout or auto layout). Then there is multicol, page-margin boxes, > flexbox, other CSS 3 layout modules ... Oh yes, min/max was just one arbitrary choice of 'things we'd probably need to update'. > > I'm not saying 'padding: auto' is impossible > +1 . Enabling this one scenario with padding:auto may come with a fair amount of other delicate baggage. Though some of it could be good if it enables other use-cases. > and I don't know why the ::outside pseudo-element was abandoned, but I think >that the latter is much more realistic. I don't know about ::outside; but discussing other ways to achieve the same result would be helpful imo.
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