[css-flexbox] Using "preferred size" in initial layout, rather than max-content size

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:28:12 +1000
• To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
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In Flexbox layout step 2.E (section 9.2), we do layout on the flex
items, treating "auto" as max-content.  I think we actually want to
treat it as "preferred size".  If you've got a multicol flex item with
a specified column size and count, you want to return the product of
those properties, not the max-content size of the multicol.

This has no effect on most things, since most layout modes don't have
a preferred size, so it defaults to max-content instead.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 27 August 2014 07:28:59 UTC