Re: Exposing Fundamental Primitives (was: [css-regions] Named Flows, Elements and Box Generation)

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Monday 2013-10-28 17:02 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Regions, or at least something very similar to them, are clearly the
>> primitive underlying Multicol and some of the more exotic Page
>> features.
>
> I don't think so -- these other features all describe their layout
> model in a way allows implementations to do layout in a specific
> order without such a multi-pass model.  And I'm not convinced that
> the complex multi-pass model is regions actually allows describing
> things like the intrinsic sizing of multicol.

This is also fine.  It's okay for the sugar to optimize things better
than authors can achieve on their own.

Sizing is a whole nother thing to eventually expose.  We're chipping
away at this piece by piece; don't think it's worthless just because
not everything has been revealed yet.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:36:26 UTC