On Monday 2006-05-01 09:05 +1200, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> L. David Baron wrote:
> > To clarify this a little:  inline reflow is fundamentally an operation
> > on lists, not trees.  (Inline frames, which are containers, just put two
> > items in the list:  one before their children and one after.)  If we do
> > this algorithm by walking the list, without recursion into methods, then
> > we can split things more easily and just keep going without having to go
> > out of the recursion and then back into it on the new continuation
> > objects.
> 
> This sounds like something that would be post 1.9 if we did it ... I
> don't see a driving need to do it for 1.9.

That's fine, although I fear significant work on the current code may be
somewhat painful.

> Do you intend this method to eventually construct the same sort of
> inline frame tree that we do today?

Yes.

-David

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation

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