Re: [css3-grid-layout] mismatched grid template strings

• From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:10:22 -0700
• To: www-style@w3.org
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On 03/15/2012 11:43 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:
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> On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Phil Cupp<pcupp@microsoft.com>  wrote:
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>> Brad, in your example below the expansion of b resulted in a non-rectangular cell so that wouldn't be OK.
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> Oops. I didn't even notice that. On the other hand, the spec doesn't seem to forbid non-rectangular grid cells, does it? It just doesn't have a way to create them other than with template. Personally, I think it would be useful to be able to create "L", "C", and "O" -shaped areas.

I think we all agree it would be useful, but it complicates the layout calculations,
so IIRC we're disallowing it for this round.

~fantasai

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