RE: [css-grid] About "infinitely growable" tracks in the sizing algorithm

Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
> I was lately wondering why we need this thing of "mark/unmark as infinitely
> growable"[1] step in the track sizing algorithm. I'm including some Microsoft
> folks on Cc because this comes from the initial algorithm. My point is, I think
> having something like this is useless as it does not add any specific new
> behavior to the algorithm. Let me explain why.
> 
> The last two steps of "Increase sizes to accommodate spanning items"
> section are only run for those tracks whose max track sizing function is max-
> content (tracks with min-content as max track sizing function are only
> considered for the first of those two steps).
> 
> So we have two possibilities when evaluating intrinsic maximums:
> 
> 1- the growth limit does not change from infinite to finite: then the track is
> still infinitely growable for the last step and we don't need to mark anything
> as infinitely growable.
> 
> 2- the growth limit changes from infinite to finite: in this case we don't need
> to mark anything as infinitely growable, because when evaluating the max-
> content maximums all those tracks will be eligible to grow beyond limits (as
> they're max-content) so they'll effectively behave as if they were infinitely
> growable.
> 
> Am I missing something?

I think this is the same question that we discussed here: 

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0512.html


Does that thread answer your question?

-Peter

Received on Monday, 2 February 2015 18:04:59 UTC