Re: [css-grid] Intrinsic / preferred logical widths on the grid element

>> AFAICT there is no definition for the intrinsic / preferred logical
>> widths on the grid element.
>>
>> Currently Blink has a set of heuristics to return something in this
>> case but it wasn't really good and duplicated some of the logic from
>> the layout algorithm found in the specification.
>>
>> It turns out that if you run the algorithm [1] with
>> AvailableLogicalSpace = 0, you get accurate answers without requiring
>> any extra code (and no layout as the algorithm stands [2]):
>> - The sum of the grid tracks' UsedBreadth is the minimum logical width
>> - The sum of the grid tracks' MaxBreadth is the maximum logical width
>>
>> Would that sound reasonable as a definition for intrinsic sizes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Julien
>>
>> [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-grid/#function-ComputeUsedBreadthOfGridTracks
>> [2] However the issue of orthogonal writing mode between the grid
>> element and the grid items could change that.
>
> It sounds like this works.

Blink made the change some time ago [1]. Should we update the
specification to include this definition for the intrinsic / preferred
logical widths on the grid element?

Thanks,
Julien

[1] http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?view=revision&revision=159189

Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 23:04:24 UTC