Re: [whatwg] Allowing authors to obtain a vertical

2013-03-29 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > Why wouldn't this be a CSS issue? That's the layer of the Web platform > where we put presentationa-specific things. You can't detect the size of something from within CSS, because then you can change the size. > But in this particular case,

Re: [whatwg] Allowing authors to obtain a vertical

2013-03-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Scott González wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > Is 'auto' useful in practice? Is it a behavior that authors or users > > expect? I don't know, but my hunch is "no", and it would be more > > straightforward to just use horizontal and let

Re: [whatwg] Allowing authors to obtain a vertical

2013-03-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Jonathan Watt wrote: > > The result of the discussion here: > > http://www.w3.org/mid/514a17d4.3070...@jwatt.org > > is that I've changed Firefox Nightly's handling of to > allow it to render as a vertical slider if it has an orient="vertical" > attribute on it. There was