Re: an interoperable object (fallback and context menus)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:57:45 -0400 Message-ID: <49BAF2F9.9030000@mit.edu> To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 10:40:29 GMT

L. David Baron wrote:
> If we assume that all plugins are replaced elements in terms of the
> CSS model (which may well be a reasonable assumption)

I was certainly making that assumption.  It seems like a plug-in is 
about as replaced-element-like in CSS terms as you get: the CSS renderer 
really has no idea what's going on inside that box, and in many cases 
doesn't have a way to find out even if it wanted to.

-Boris