- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:17:24 +0200
- To: Morten Stenshorne <mstensho@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@gtalbot.org, "www-style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
Morten Stenshorne wrote:
> > I've asked Hakom a similar question on July 21st and he answered:
> >
> > {
> > If height [of a multi-column element] is auto, [then column-fill:] 'auto'
> > and [column-fill:] 'balance' should produce the same result.
>
> That's only for continuous media, I think. The inner multicol is kind of
> in paged media, and my main point is that column-fill:auto is meaningful
> here. column-fill:auto should only be dishonored if the column heights
> are truly unconstrained (and even then it can be argued that it's a
> dubious thing to do; you could still achieve interesting effects with
> only explicit column breaks).
Yes, it would make sense to honor 'column-fill: auto' even in
unconstrained environments. One can achieve interesting effects, and
one honors specified values (instead of ignoring them).
If so, we would have, I believe:
auto balance
continous media, constrained columns fill balance
continous media, unconstrained columns honor exlicit breaks balance
continous media, overflow columns -- property has no effect --
paged media, all-but-last-pages balance balance
paged media, last page fill balance
Does this look right?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Tuesday, 13 August 2013 07:18:02 UTC