Re: [css-writing-modes-3] Defer auto-muticol behavior in Auto-sizing Block Containers in Orthogonal Flows from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2015-05-29 (www-style@w3.org from May 2015)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:36:16 -0700
To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>
Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDEg9_BBu6FjU6geo81JshvvMuJ62=H4b28UK6sfW6Kkw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't it nice to use this feature for normal horizontal documents or a
> div with specific height so that it auto-multicol and user can scroll
> horizontally?

That's not "auto-multicol", it's just "multicol".  It's a standard
usage of the feature; just set 'height' and 'column-width' and you'll
get the desired behavior.  What's under discussion here is the
automatic activation of multicol in certain (rare) circumstances to
combat unintentional bad layout.

> When someone mentioned fragments, I was thinking Håkon's demo to
> scroll pages horizontally and thought it's nice. Sorry for the
> misunderstand, but isn't this useful?

That's something entirely different, and unrelated to the discussion at hand.

~TJ

Received on Friday, 29 May 2015 21:37:03 UTC