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Minutes and Resolutions Hamburg F2F May 2012: Shaping and Paging Flows

Regions

Alan and Florian presented several ideas for generating styleable
pseudo-elements to hold content flows:

• overflow: repeat, which would redirect overflow into creating a repetition of the element as it’s sibling. Individual repetitions can be targetted and styled with an ::nth-copy(An+B) pseudo-selector.
• A generic ::slot() pseudo element
• A Page Templates proposal

There was consensus to replace all the examples in Regions with some combination of the above techniques. There was also consensus that the proposals need to be developed further, and that overlap and interaction among them needs to be carefully considered.

Shapes and Exclusions

• Discussed how shapes/exclusions impact wrapping content. (It’s just like floats.)
• Discussed using background images to define shapes/exclusions
• Discussed concerns about mixing with absolute positioning and the resulting collision-prone layouts.

GCPM

• Reviewed some features in GCPM, including new float keywords, columns() notation in float property, and float position snapping.

Fragmentation

• Resolved: The gap between a breakpoint and the end of the page does consume specified height. The box’s background and border are only drawn in that gap if box-decoration-break is slice and the element has auto height.
• Resolved: Publish an updated Working Draft of CSS3 Fragmentation in a week after edits announced if there are no objections.

Full minutes: Regions, Shapes, and Exclusions, GCPM and Fragmentation

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