[css3-flexbox] "Flex Baselines" section needs to explicitly talk about in-flow flex items

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:54:22 -0700
• To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
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We've gone back and forth over the history of the spec over whether to
call abspos children of a flex container "flex items" or not (settling
on calling them flex items).  It looks like this confused us when we
were writing the "Flex Baselines" section, because it doesn't
distinguish between in-flow and out-of-flow flex items.  Obviously,
the intent is to use the first *in-flow* flex item whenever it
mentions a flex item, so we need to go amend that.

I should make sure that we're not accidentally including out-of-flow
flex items anywhere else where it's inappropriate, either.

~TJ

Received on Friday, 28 September 2012 22:55:09 UTC