Re: [css-flexbox] static position of absolutely-positioned flex items still "at-risk"?

On 05/22/2013 10:58 AM, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> The flexbox spec currently says:
>
>    # The following features are at-risk:
>    #  * Calculation of the static position of
>    #    absolutely-positioned flex items.
>
> This is in both the TR and the ED versions:
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/#status
>    http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#status
>
> I think the static-position chunk of spec has remained the same for a
> while now -- is it still considered to be "at-risk"?

It's at-risk until we have two interoperable implementations
of it. :)

We have a related issue against the Grid Layout spec also, it
would be good to figure out how to make them behave similarly.
Depending on what Flexbox implementations do and what makes
sense in Grid, we might end up changing things in Flexbox.

So in short, if you haven't implemented this bit yet, I'd
hold off on it and fix other bugs meanwhile. =)

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:16:09 UTC