On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:21:09PM -0800, Garret Buell wrote:
> Well I submitted the bug and now that I understand I like it the way
> it is. I guess the real problem is that I was unaware how the shoes
> width model worked.

Yeah, I think this needs to go into NKS.  I'll put out some updates
in PDF which you can glue into your copies.  Also, should go on the
StacksAndFlows wiki page.

> What does shoes do to the width when you specify
> the width to be smaller than the elements inside it (like in ticket
> #80)? Maybe, just for the benefit of beginners, it should throw an
> invalid margin size error or something instead of doing whatever it is
> doing because I don't think "World Hello" should happen and I can't
> think of any situations where specifying a margin size bigger than the
> width would be beneficial.

So, in the case of ticket #80, you end up with an element which is
positioned as if it were 175+ pixels wide, but elements around it
treat it as if it were 125 pixels wide.

I want to avoid error messages, I think.  I like how HTML gracefully
handles mistakes.  A warning of some kind?  I don't know, these are
great questions.

_why

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