Re: [css-page-floats] The 'clear' values are backwards

Say you have three top page floats right after oneanother at the start of a
document. You want the first page float to be on a page with no other page
floats and the subsequent two to be on the second page. How would you go
about specifying the clear values for the three floats for that to happen
according to your model?
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM, fantasai
<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> On 01/23/2016 11:15 AM, Johannes Wilm wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The page-float 'clear' values (block-start/end, and ones that act like
>>> that) are defined backwards - as written, they prevent *further*
>>> page-floats in the same position. That's not how clear works in other
>>> contexts - 'clear' indicates that the element wants to move if *it*
>>> isn't the first in that direction.
>>>
>>> So "clear: block-start;" should be defined as making the page float in
>>> question move to the next appropriate fragment if it's not the first
>>> float in that position.
>>
>>
>> Yes,s o it should lock the current fragment from any further floats in
>> that same direction AND defer itself at least one fragment, right?
>> Else we could end up with subsequent floats being placed in that same
>> fragment.
>
> Well, but that's how clear generally works. So, yes, subsequent content
> would be allowed (unless said content also clears).

Yeah, clear:left does *not* prevent further left floats, it just
ensures that the *clearing float* is the first left float on the line.
We must not change this behavior for other types of floats, at least
by default.  Adding "prevent any further floats in this position" via
a keyword or another property would be fine, if it's needed, but we
should make sure it's actually needed and can't be addressed by just
adding 'clear' to more things.

~TJ