- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:49:12 +0000
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 12/5/13, 4:49 PM, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: >On 12/5/13, 4:01 PM, "Sylvain Galineau" <galineau@adobe.com> wrote: > >>6.1 The 'shape-outside' Property [3] >> >>Bikeshed: I am unsure about 'auto' being the best name for 'using the >>margin-box as normal' > >I notice that clip-path uses none to mean no shape. I think auto was >initially used in Exclusions because we had both shape-inside and >shape-outside, and shape-outside applied to floats and exclusions. The no >shape scenarios for all of these had slightly different behavior. Now that >we’ve changed shape-inside:auto to not have a special meaning I’m not >against changing auto to none. But I’m not entirely convinced none is >significantly better. > >So it’s either: > >The meaning of shape-outside:auto is that the float area (or exclusion >area) uses its default behavior. It’s still a shape, it’s just that the >shape is determined by the float or exclusion behavior before >shape-outside was defined. > >Or > >The meaning of shape-outside:none is that the float area (or exclusion >area) is not modified by an explicit shape. > >Opinions? Any opinions on using auto versus none for shape-outside? Either one would be fine by me. Thanks, Alan
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