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Minutes TPAC 2012 Part VII: Display Models and Miscellaneous

By fantasai November 15, 2012 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

text-overflow: ellipsis

Resolved: Selecting the ellipsis selects the ellipsed text.
Resolved: If all of ellipsed text is selected, show selection of ellipsis.
Resolved: Put a note that behavior wrt partially-selected text is up to UA
Discussed clarifying examples in spec, adding tests.

Grid Layout

Brief discussion of direction, progress, and lack thereof.

HTML5 Challenges

Resolved: Add display: svg and display: math or something similar at some point.
Resolved: Toggleable states is a cool idea and work on it at some undetermined but not high priority. See Tab’s post for a discussion of some ideas and problems with them.
Discussed <iframe seamless>; CSS object negotiation algo needs an update to handle it.

Display Models

Discussed splitting display into multiple properties, particularly whether to split inner and outer display models into separate properties (display-inside/display-outside).
Discussed discarding boxes vs. hiding them.
Resolved: Start css-display-3 as a new ED.

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