- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:30:17 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 05/14/2013 05:30 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote: > On 05/14/2013 04:44 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote: >> On 05/14/2013 11:12 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> Proposed solution: we add a new value, provisionally named >>> "dont-shrink-me-bro" > [...] >>> This becomes the new value for >>> 'flex-basis' when it's omitted from the shorthand >> Isn't "0%" exactly the dont-shrink-me-bro value that you're looking for? > > Aside: the flexbox spec actually used to have 0% as the default > flex-basis value in the flex shorthand, but it this default changed from > "0%" to "the length zero" in this commit from August: > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/rev/b2a41fac8bd9#l2.71 > > At first I thought it might've been a mistake (since the commit message > sounds like it wasn't intending to change meaning), but I don't think it > was a mistake, because the next changeset replaced "0%" with "0px" in a > several other places, e.g.: > > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/rev/4e1547aca385#l1.127 > > fantasai or Tab, do you happen to recall the reason for that change? (I > searched my www-style archive for "flex-basis", but I couldn't find > anything related, in the timeframe of those commits.) I honestly can't remember the reason for that change. Probably some internal discussion between me and Tab, though I don't recall whether it was intended to be substantive or editorial. ~fantasai
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