[whatwg] Cycles in anchored positioning

• From: Matt Falkenhagen <falken@chromium.org>
• Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:58:32 -0800
• To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
• Message-ID: <CAJ_xCikKz4UtvyJxt46fiRfMpvTJea+FAEaVeEb_LruvYztRaA@mail.gmail.com>

How are cycles with magically aligned[1] elements resolved?

For example, if a and b are dialogs and you do:

a.show(b);
b.show(a);

I think an anchoring cycle can also occur if an element |a| is anchored to
a descendent of an element anchored to |a|.

[1]
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/commands.html#magically-aligned

Received on Friday, 7 December 2012 23:59:20 UTC