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Re: [css-flexbox] Resolving Flexible Lengths algorithm currently allows the "flex-shrink" value of a min-size-clamped flex item to impact other items' sizing

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 11:03:39 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDD22Tzr284kJZ8RnULiiq4VTSGtsJUuWRUgwSKvKBXAg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org> 
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 10:44 AM, Daniel Holbert wrote:
>> ADDRESSING THIS:
>> ================
>> Assuming we want to fix this, I think we'd need to renormalize the
>> flex-shrink values on each loop iteration. Or something like that.
>
> FWIW: I've suggested a tweak to the old "resolving flexible lengths"
> algorithm (in a new thread[1]), which I believe makes the old algorithm
> produce the same results as the new algorithm, with this bug addressed.
>
> ~Daniel
>
> [1]  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Apr/0253.html

For closure, we resolved this thread by reviving the "CR" algorithm,
tweaked as you outline here.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 18:04:26 UTC

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