Re: Exposing Fundamental Primitives (was: [css-regions] Named Flows, Elements and Box Generation)

On Tuesday 2013-10-29 12:14 -0700, Alan Stearns wrote:
> On 10/29/13 11:24 AM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> >Agreed, but I think the underlying primitives we expose to do that
> >should actually be more like primitives -- they shouldn't involve
> >things like implicit multi-pass layout (which isn't in the things
> >you cite that are built on top of them).
> 
> Please note that multi-pass layout is only required IF there is a region
> that is sized by its content AND that region is not the last region in the
> chain. There are plenty of places for optimization in the actual
> implementation - the spec takes the conservative route and describes the
> worst-case scenario an implementation needs to support. Section 7.3
> encourages optimizations, and note 12 allows for even more complicated
> layout steps if an implementation wants to go down that path.

I don't think this is good enough, especially for a primitive, as I
described in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0339.html

(Sorry, in hindsight perhaps I should have put that reply in this
thread and put a pointer in the other thread.)

-David

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