Re: [css-sizing] variations on max-content/preferred sizing

* fantasai wrote:
>However, if you place a multicol element inside a container that [...]

>Currently Tab and I are thinking of naming the first concept
>'max-content' size (since it is a true maximum) and the second concept
>'preferred' size, at least in the spec.
>
>But as far as authors are concerned, they probably really want the
>'preferred' size. It's just the layout engine that might need to
>know the max-content size.

Both names seem awfully generic and possibly misleading; if you have to
invoke multicol layout to explain them, or the difference between them,
they are probably not sufficiently descriptive.
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Received on Monday, 26 January 2015 03:59:48 UTC