On 05/17/2012 09:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Issue link:
http://wiki.csswg.org/topics/css3-flexbox-default-shrink-when-grow-is-0>
> We discussed this at the F2F, but didn't come to a conclusion, as it
> was right at the end of the period.
>
> To address other issues, we changed the default for 'flex-shrink' from
> 0 to 1 during the F2F. However, this means that the behavior of
> “flex: 0<length>;” changes - it can now shrink, where before it
> couldn't.
>
> We propose to make an omitted flex-shrink default to 0 if the
> flex-grow is given as 0 in the flex shorthand. I think dbaron was
> weakly against this during the F2F. David, how do you feel?
So, if we go with Proposal C for the initial values of 'flex':
http://www.w3.org/mid/4FC70851.1030906@...then I really don't think we should make this change.
~fantasai