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CSS Flexible Box Layout Level 1 Disposition of Comments for 2014-09-25 LCWD

Last call document: https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-css-flexbox-1-20140925/

Editor's draft: https://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox-1/

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 1. #
Summary:  Use preferred size instead of max-content size
From:     Tab Atkins
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0385.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0424.html
Closed:   OutOfScope
Verified: reporter is spec editor

Issue 2. #
Summary:  Flex item handling of anonymous boxes should be normative
From:     Alan Stearns
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0265.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0268.html
Closed:   Accepted
Verified: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0269.html
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 3. #
Summary:  Editorial nits
From:     Alan Stearns
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0267.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0431.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 4. #
Summary:  Alignment shouldn't depend on number of lines, but on wrappability
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0489.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0341.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0004.html

Issue 5. #
Summary:  Clarify sizing of abspos flex containers
From:     François Remy
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0396.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0191.html
Closed:   Invalid

Issue 6. #
Summary:  Error in stretch definition
From:     Greg Whitworth
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0429.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0430.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 7. #
Summary:  Alias no-wrap to nowrap
From:     Tab Atkins
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0188.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0581.html
Closed:   Rejected
Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0581.html
Verified: reporter is spec editor

Issue 8. #
Summary:  Error in flex container max-content definition
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0443.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0340.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 9. #
Summary:  Scaled flex shrink factor should multiply by outer, not inner, base size
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0417.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0495.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Editors' discretion

Issue 10. #
Summary:  Revert 'flex-basis: auto' rename, add 'content' value instead
From:     Rossen Atanassov
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0023.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0342.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0401.html
Followup: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0346.html

Issue 11. #
Summary:  Clarify that flex layout is writing-mode relative
From:     Addison Phillips
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0058.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0344.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 12. #
Summary:  Example should state general case, put specific in parens, not vice versa
From:     Addison Phillips
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0060.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0343.html
Closed:   Rejected
Resolved: Editorial

Issue 13. #
Summary:  Why are there sheep?
From:     Addison Phillips
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0059.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0064.html
Closed:   Invalid
Resolved: Editorial

Issue 14. #
Summary:  'flex' section needs editorial love
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Nov/0066.html
Closed:   Invalid
Verified: reporter is spec editor

Issue 15. #
Summary:  Stray references to old spec prose
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Dec/0078.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0089.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 16. #
Summary:  'order' should affect speech/navigation order
From:     Bo Campbell
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0119.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0121.html
Closed:   Rejected
Note:     WG still open to further discussion on solving the relevant concerns,
          will follow up

Issue 17. #
Summary:  Forced flex line breaking controls
From:     Glen Huang
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0322.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0336.html
Closed:   Deferred

Issue 18. #
Summary:  Spec conflicts with itself on interpretation of break controls
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0349.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0263.html
Closed:   Accepted

Issue 19. #
Summary:  Blink refuses to implement percentage-margin change
From:     Tab Atkins Jr.
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0521.html
Note:     Accepting this reversal will require a corresponding change to Grid.
Open
Note:     Issue noted, pending later discussion

Issue 20. #
Summary:  Definite flexed size requires definite flex container main size
From:     fantasai
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0022.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 21. #
Summary:  Clarify that flex base size doesn't include min/max clamping
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0377.html
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Feb/0428.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 22. #
Summary:  Clarify whether layout is required for min/max-content sizing.
From:     Christian Biesinger
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0049.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0044.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 23. #
Summary:  Should justify-self:stretch compute to flex-start, or just act like it?
From:     Javier Fernandez
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0247.html
Closed:   OutOfScope
Note:     Filed against CSS Align

Issue 24. #
Summary:  Static position of an abspos child of a flex container is confusingly defined
From:     Christian Biesinger
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0137.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0047.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Editorial

Issue 25. #
Summary:  min-width:auto shouldn't take definite flex-basis into account
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0038.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015May/0063.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Bugfix

Issue 26. #
Summary:  Some "flex basis" links are wrong
From:     Daniel Holbert
Comment:  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0534.html
Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0264.html
Closed:   Accepted
Resolved: Editorial