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CSS Flexible Box Layout Level 3 Disposition of Comments for 2012-06-12 LCWD

Last call document: https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-flexbox-20120612/

Editor's draft: https://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/

The following color coding convention is used for comments:

• Accepted or Rejected and positive response
• Rejected and no response
• Rejected and negative response
• Deferred
• Out-of-Scope or Invalid and not verified

Open issues are marked like this

An issue can be closed as Accepted, OutOfScope, Invalid, Rejected, or Retracted. Verified indicates commentor's acceptance of the response.

Issue 0. #
Summary:  Make spec understandable to authors
From:     Daniel Glazman
Comment:  at Hamburg F2F
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 1. #
Summary:  min-width and min-height as auto in both axes?
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FD665E2.3000101@mozilla.com
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jun/0696.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 2. #
Summary:  Handling replaced inlines as flex items
From:     CSSWG
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/CAAWBYDCWMOtPM1HUoo8wdA7nw1xSo3dnj0e3i50vq+eVh4txKw@mail.gmail.com
Response: https://www.w3.org/mid/CAAWBYDDfJ9_zFpRwf-2dbHhOByQ6QY8Lmszggga6c_-kFUM7Rg@mail.gmail.com
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 3. #
Summary:  order property and accessibility
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FE24E10.4000501@inkedblade.net
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0046.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 4. #
Summary:  order might be too generic of a name
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FBD8B99.4090101@inkedblade.net
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0442.html
Closed:   Rejected

Issue 5. #
Summary:  Paint flex items atomically?
From:     Morten Stenshorne
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/874npvizer.fsf@aeneas.oslo.osa
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0382.html
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0384.html

Issue 6. #
Summary:  Improve algorithm for hypothetical main size
From:     Alex Mogilevsky
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/2C86A15F63CD734EB1D846A0BA4E0FC823CBFC16@CH1PRD0310MB381.namprd03.prod.outlook.com
Response: [none required]
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 7. #
Summary:  Flexing prose is confusing
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FEC67B5.2060300@csail.mit.edu
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jun/0700.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0383.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 8. #
Summary:  Handling <percentage> sizes in an indefinite-size container
From:     Sławomir Domagała
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0029.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0097.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 9. #
Summary:  Have align-items follow align-content by default
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0056.html
Response: [none needed]
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: [commenter is editor]

Issue 10. #
Summary:  Flex-flow should affect default block-level alignment of flex container
          in place of containing block's 'direction'
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0072.html
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0077.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0095.html
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Aug/0003.html

Issue 11. #
Summary:  Clarifications to Chapter 4
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0078.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0094.html
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FF46774.6080404@csail.mit.edu
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0222.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 12. #
Summary:  Use min-size instead of basis for line breaking when size is auto
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0084.html
Response: [none needed]
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: [commenter is editor]

Issue 13. #
Summary:  wrap-reverse is confusing
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FF46280.4080900@csail.mit.edu
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0161.html
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0173.html

Issue 14. #
Summary:  visibility: collapse should redo line-breaking
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/4FF46931.30407@csail.mit.edu
Response: https://www.w3.org/mid/4FF50153.8040801@inkedblade.net
Closed:   Rejected
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Aug/0003.html

Issue 15. #
Summary:  sign error in algorithm
From:     Florian Rivoal
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/op.wgy5uau14p7avi@localhost.localdomain
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0205.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 16. #
Summary:  Should z-index Just Work on flex items?
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0190.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 17. #
Summary:  Does 'order' affect abspos placeholders?
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0167.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 18. #
Summary:  Absolutely-positioned flex items should not affect layout in flex container
From:     John Hax
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0258.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0262.html
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0419.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 19. #
Summary:  Flexbox needs examples with different writing modes
From:     i18nWG
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0269.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0272.html
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0273.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0275.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 20. #
Summary:  Baseline determination underdefined
From:     i18nWG
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0271.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0274.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 21. #
Summary:  Tables as flex items underdefined
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0385.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 22. #
Summary:  Missing 'order' edit to <integer>
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://www.w3.org/mid/50096C12.3010908@mozilla.com
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0607.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 23.
Summary:  Accessibility comments on Flexbox
From:     PFWG
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2012JulSep/0049.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0281.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 24.
Summary:  Baseline alignment of inline-flex with overflow
From:     Morten Stenshorne
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0403.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0069.html
Closed:   Accepted
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0096.html

Issue 25.
Summary:  Awkward flex ratio terminology
From:     L. David Baron
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0356.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0116.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 26.
Summary:  Clarify parsing of unitless zero in 'flex' shorthand
From:     呂康豪 (Kang-Hao Lu)
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0216.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0300.html
Closed:   Accepted