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

On 1/3/14, 10:23 AM, "Bem Jones-Bey" <bjonesbe@adobe.com> wrote:

>
>On Jan 2, 2014, at 23:36 , Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> ’none' would make make the syntax of clip-path and shape-outside more
>>alike which is nice. I assume that authors can live with ‘auto’ or
>> ’none’.
>> 
>> The question is, shape-outside: auto/none means that CSS Shapes does
>>not contribute of the layout, right? In this case ’none’ might be more
>>preferable to indicate that?
>
>FWIW, 'none' makes more sense to me as well.

OK, that’s three votes for none, and one meh for either. I’ve changed the
initial shape-outside value from auto to none.

Thanks,

Alan

Received on Friday, 3 January 2014 23:04:57 UTC