- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:37:00 -0700
- To: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 05/31/2012 02:18 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >> It would make "flex:1 -1 100px" look cool and we certainly can do > that. It would however create the first ever precedent of a property > taking negative values only. And its meaning is not really "negative", > it is ability to shrink... >> >> Maybe we should just use a different word in the spec? > > Perhaps just: > s/positive flex ratio/flex grow ratio/ > s/negative flex ratio/flex shrink ratio/ > with appropriate massaging of contextual text? > (e.g. "If the sign of the free space matches the sign of the > flexibility" would perhaps get s/matches the sign/matches the type/.) Good idea, done. ~TJ
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