- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:35:38 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
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
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