[webkit-reviews] review requested: [Bug 52473] REGRESSION (r67771): Auto-scaling to avoid orphans is broken : [Attachment 78999] proposed un-fix

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Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> has asked  for review:
Bug 52473: REGRESSION (r67771): Auto-scaling to avoid orphans is broken
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52473

Attachment 78999: proposed un-fix
https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=78999&action=review

------- Additional Comments from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>
The idea of this auto-shrinking is that it
(1) doesn't change page width, and
(2) is fast to try, because if we try and fail, we end up switching scale three
times.

A difficulty with mechanical zooming is that it would not respect CSS page
breaks, which is unacceptable. But there is no fast way to just change
available page height with the new pagination model.

This feature was questionable at best (what if I print ten separate documents
with identical settings - getting different font size is terribly unwelcome). I
propose retiring it.