Edit ISSUE-164: Flexbox specification unclear on determination of flex item's baseline.

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Matitiahu Allouche Eemeli Aro Fátima Baña Bert Bos David Clarke Andrew Cunningham Martin Dürst Elika Etemad Richard Ishida Koji Ishii John Klensin Tatsuo KOBAYASHI Toshi Kobayashi Aharon Lanin Jason Linehan Yoichiro Nagao Erik Nordin Yuki Okushi Addison Phillips Oliver Renwick Florian Rivoal Felix Sasaki Atsushi Shimono Santhosh Thottingal Najib Tounsi Bobby Tung Fuqiao Xue François Yergeau Junichi Yoshii Norbert Lindenberg

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Sections 8.3 and 8.5 of the Flexbox specification use a flex item's baseline, but don't say how that baseline is determined. CSS 2.1 defines baselines for inline tables and inline blocks, the first as the baseline of the first row of the table, the second as the baseline of its last line box in the normal flow. The latter doesn't seem likely to result in the layout shown in figure 10 in section 8.3, which seems to align based on first lines. Some clarification would be welcome. Version reviewed: editor's draft, 9 July 2012 http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/ Koji pointed out that baseline was discussed on www-style@ recently: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Apr/0414.html

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