- From: Johannes Wilm <johanneswilm@vivliostyle.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:56:35 +0100
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, public-ppl@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CABkgm-RrjzAhV6--X9PUE-vCxPDR0cT6E0bgEzdSzVsQ3xaSrw@mail.gmail.com>
Hey On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015, at 00:48, Johannes Wilm <johanneswilm@vivliostyle.com> > wrote: > > > > Hey, > > I have spent the last few weeks looking at the manuals of PrinceXML, the > Antennahouse Formatter, Håkon Wium Lie's CSS Figure Spec [1] and have > discussed with the Vivliostyle team what they would need from a page float > spec. > > A bit tangent to what you'd like the review to be about, but you have also > removed a bunch of sections which were not about page floats. > > When it comes to the removal of "Regions" and "Exclusions", since these > were experimental counter proposals to the path the WG is following, I > think this was appropriate. > > You also removed "column-span: <integer>". While this is arguably the > wrong spec to host this, I believe this is actually something that should > be preserved. It may have been underspecified, but the concept is sound and > useful. (I am a lot less convinced about column-span: page). > Yes, I totally agree. The idea of column span makes a lot of sense. It just seemed to be somewhat separate issue and not part of the page float concept. > > I am not sure I can invest the time to be the editor of a new level of > multi-col if it should cover more than this addition, but for this specific > feature, I can put in the time needed to make sure it is specified properly > and to respond to feedback. > Should we restore it to the css-page-floats spec until a more appropriate > spec to host it is ready? > > Should I start a multi-col level 2 (as a diff spec) for this feature? > > I would say put this is in a new mult-col spec, but I am new to your guys' work processes. If it's complicated/difficult to start a new spec that requires a lot of time, we can temporarily add a section entitled something like "unrelated specifications" at the end of the page float specification until it can be moved to its own specification. > - Florian >
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