- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 01:47:04 +0900
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
By the way, allow me to do one clarification, as I may still misunderstand something. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] > > The only reason for "auto-multicol" is to handle the case of "infinite > inline-axis space" in a way that's not super user-hostile. The naive > behavior *is* extremely user-hostile; it effectively makes the > orthogonal element max-content in the inline axis (requiring the user > to scroll back and forth to read lines of text; we all know how > terrible this is when reading some accidentally-long <pre> text) and, > if there's enough block-axis content, overflowing in the page's > secondary scrolling direction (the one that's annoying to scroll in). > That situation never occurs anywhere except orthogonal flows, because > the inline axis space is always finite when all the writing modes > match. I'm all good for UA to handle "infinite inline-axis space". I agree we should. What I'm suggesting here is for UA not to handle the overflow in block direction automatically and forcibly. Was this point clear? /koji
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