- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:40:43 +0100
- To: "Edward O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Edward O'Connor wrote: > > My primary point is that we should not abuse HTML tags as this is > > harmful to web semantics. That's problems #1 > > Agreed. Good. > > and it should, alone, be enough to stop the [CSS Regions] > > specification from progressing. > > Disagreed. Regions currently relies on dummy elements because the WG has > not made progress on defining features for explicitly creating boxes in > CSS. Once we have such features, content can be flowed into them with > the properties defined in CSS Regions. It shouldn't be hard to make progress on this issue. Here are two specifications that define boxes in a CSS syntax: http://www.idpf.org/epub/pgt/ http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-page-template/ > Instead of applying stop energy to a spec that defines necessary > features (how to flow content through boxes of different sizes), we > should instead prioritize making progress on defining new box creation > mechanisms so that authors won't have to resort to dummy elements. That would be good. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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