- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 01:21:06 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 09/03/2015 06:14 PM, Peter Moulder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 10:15:37AM -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Peter Moulder >> <pjrm@mail.internode.on.net> wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:21:04PM +0200, fantasai wrote: >>>> Is there a useful reason that we define the root element as out-of-flow? >>> >>> It might be for purposes of the immediately following phrase, "the flow of A" >>> (and related phrases such as "in the same flow"). >> >> Yeah, it seems likely that it was done solely to make that later >> sentence simpler. But I agree with fantasai that it's confusing in >> general, and we should instead call it in-flow but amend the following >> phrase to talk about roots as well. > > It might be helpful to introduce a term "flow root" for the existing > definition that includes root. We're using that elsewhere... http://www.w3.org/TR/css-display-3/#valdef-display-flow-root unless you have a better name. :D zcorpan would like us to change it. ~fantasai
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