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[css-multicol-1] which paragraph says count+width not making sense? #4291

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myakura opened this issue Sep 10, 2019 · 4 comments
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[css-multicol-1] which paragraph says count+width not making sense? #4291

myakura opened this issue Sep 10, 2019 · 4 comments
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myakura commented Sep 10, 2019

However, as described below, setting both the width and number of columns rarely makes sense.

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-multicol/#example-38b72848

Although I'm pretty bad at reading, I couldn't find below where it's described. Example 4 doesn't seem to say that.
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frivoal commented Sep 11, 2019

I agree, I cannot find the "below". Also, this statements is pretty strange. It's judgemental, but I don't agree with it. I think we should just drop it.

@rachelandrew , what do you think?

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Yep, I had wondered about it too. I think we can just remove that? If so I'll do it.

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myakura commented Sep 11, 2019

I just found MDN explains it pretty well (guess who wrote it ;-))
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Columns/Basic_Concepts_of_Multicol#Using_column-count_and_column-width_together

perhaps the spec say similar. adding a note to tell setting these two might end up fewer columns is helpful for authors.

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frivoal commented Sep 11, 2019

Yeah, we can just delete that, no need to go through the working group for that, it's just a weird little bit of non normative prose.

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