[css-inline] Floats and Initial Letters

Dave Cramer and I just finished all the outstanding edits on initial letters.
We also added some text on interaction with floats, specifically to deal with
the case of a float to the start that occurs, for example, on the second line
of a paragraph with a 2-line drop-cap.

We thought it makes the most sense for floats to automatically clear the
initial letter, rather than the alternative options we thought of
   * being between the initial letter and the rest of the text
   * being somehow pushed through the initial letter to the containing block
     edge (and thereby shift the initial letter further into the containing
     block).

We're not 100% sure if this is the right behavior for floats that happen to
be on the first line, however, since in that case the second behavior is
less of a problem. (It makes more sense and doesn't create loops.)

Thoughts welcome. We'd like to bring this up on the next call and publish
to /TR.

~fantasai

Received on Thursday, 11 December 2014 02:09:05 UTC