Re: [css3-flexbox] spec contradicts itself about display: table-row; flex items from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-05-22 (www-style@w3.org from May 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:00:30 -0700
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDBxtFGn=Ka_fKMXCtj6ieN-_UxTeyTr9MsWq6VaGSsrRQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Christian Biesinger
<cbiesinger@google.com> wrote:
> Hm... in that case I'd like to ask, why is this behavior desirable? It
> seems like lots of complexity for little gain compared to just
> promoting the display types to block.

The gain is that you get to rely on the same box-construction rules
that you get inside of block layout.  It's not good if two naked
table-cells wrap themselves in a table in block layout, but break in
flexbox layout.

~TJ

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