Re: [css-grid] Capping the size of grids?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar@igalia.com> wrote:
> The current spec allows implementors to cap the number of repetitions
> allowed for the repeat() function[1]. I'd like to propose to extend this
> to the values accepted by the grid positioning properties. The rationale
> behind this is that those positioning properties might act as grid
> definition properties (by creating implicit grid tracks), allowing
> authors to do things like: "grid-row-start: ARBITRARY_HUGE_NUMBER;"
>
> So my proposal would be to remove the special case of repeat() in the
> specs and replace it by a more general statement allowing implementors
> to cap the number of tracks, no matter if they're explicitly or
> implicitly defined.
>
> WDYT?

Yes, this is an oversight in the spec; we didn't think of the fact
that positioning might create an overly-large implicit grid.  I've
generalized the allowance to limit the size of the grid to apply to
the explicit and implicit grids in general.

~TJ