Re: [css-shapes] LC feedback - auto versus none

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

Received on Thursday, 2 January 2014 22:49:42 UTC