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

On 22/08/14 02:36, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> 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.

And there is another question, what would happen with the resolved
values for grid-template-*? As they are the used values, I guess that we
should output 0px for all the grid tracks over the limits, is that correct?

BR