- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:13:23 -0700
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Andrei Bucur <abucur@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "hyatt@apple.com" <hyatt@apple.com>
On 9/7/12 9:08 AM, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: >On 9/7/12 8:49 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Andrei Bucur <abucur@adobe.com> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> The spec is not very clear about what happens when content overflows >>> outside the region chain of the containing block. There are some things >>> that need to be better specified such as: >>> - the overflow should be rendered inside the previous/next region in >>>the >>> chain or outside the region that's being overflown? I'm in favour of >>>the >>> first option. >> >>I'm not sure what you mean. The last element in the region chain just >>gets the rest of the content, and acts like a normal element would in >>an overflow situation. > >I think the situation Andrei is bringing up is where content in the >fragment contained by the region overflows the region boundaries. For >instance, if you had two regions in the chain, an element at the end of >the first region's fragment could be relatively positioned lower than the >bottom boundary of the region. Or an element at the top of the second >element's fragment could be relatively positioned above the top boundary >of the region. > >In multicol, if something in the first column is relatively positioned >below the bottom of the column, we have non-interoperable behavior. WebKit >and Opera displays the relatively positioned content below the multicolumn >element. Gecko displays the content in one of the subsequent columns. > >I'd like to spec Regions as following the WebKit and Opera behavior for >multicol. If content in the region's fragment is positioned outside of >region's boundaries, that's where it gets drawn. There should be no >interaction with other regions in the region chain. Correction: WebKit displays the content in one of the subsequent columns, and Gecko and Opera display the content below the multicolumn element. I have too many windows open, sorry for the error. The Gecko and Opera multicol behavior makes sense to me, and I don't understand the WebKit behavior. Thanks, Alan
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