- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:32:43 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
On 20/10/2012 02:06, Anton Prowse wrote: > Consequences > > One editorial thing to bear in mind when thinking about all this is that > in various places in the spec we require that boxes be "blockified". For > example, when boxes are floated or absolutely positioned, inline-* boxes > become * boxes as per the table in CSS21 9.7 (extended in the flexbox > spec to handle inline-flex, and tentatively in the lists spec to handle > the proposed inline-list-item value). It would be great to be able to > model that as a simple switch of 'display-inside' from 'inline' to > 'block', so that we didn't need that table any more. Oops. s/'display-inside'/'display-outside'/ > Regarding list > items, this switch is compatible with using 'display-inline' or > 'display-model' etc to handle list items, but is incompatible with using > 'display-outside' or an approach involving sniffing ::marker.
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