Re: CSS re-introduce min/max functions

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 14:21 +0000, Oliver Joseph Ash wrote:
>> I am aware that min/max functions have been specified before but were
>> dropped, however I think there are still valid use cases for them
>> with no
>> acceptable workarounds.
>
> There was some discussion about them recently for the purpose of
> translating XSL-FO to CSS, since XSL-FO allows them in the expression
> language. I think there was broad support but some concern about
> performance.

We resolved to add min() and max() to V&U last week at the F2F meeting.

(The concerns aren't performance, it's that some layout modes have
calculations that involve inverting the layout formula, and min/max
make inversion more difficult.)

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:35:20 UTC