- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:21:05 +0200
- To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?"G\=E9rard\?\= Talbot" <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Cc: "Public css-testsuite mailing list" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
Also sprach "Gérard Talbot":
> > Small point: perhaps we should replace the lime background with a white
> > background (in case somone tries to print these documents :)
>
> I agree.
>
> I just changed lime for white in the test and then white for black.
Good.
> > I'm a little unsure what the test tries to do. It's clear that the <div>
> > element is too big to fit, and that implementations *may* therefore
> > ignore 'column-span: all'. In which case, the <div> is laid out in two
> > columns. If so, however, how can you fit three of the <span> elements in
> > the first column?
>
> The <span> color is black but its background is transparent. And there
> is a soft (unforced) column break affecting the 3rd <span> element. The
> 3rd <span> element is broken across 2 column boxes.
Implementations may treat the <span> as unbreakable, I believe.
Probably not a good idea, but not illegal, either -- and in any case
not something we should test here.
> > The height of the div is 10em, and each span is 4em
> > high. Shouldn't there only be four <span> elements, two for each column?
>
> 4 <span> elements instead of 5 will also work. But 5 <span> elements
> should also work.
So I suggest reducing the elements to 4.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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