> Yes, IMO it's out of scope. > > DOM concerns itself only with the document, not a current rendering of > it. Even when you set an HTML element's position with the likes of > "x.style.top= '20px'", you're only simulating adding the inline style > "top: 20px" to the document, not directly telling the browser to > place the element. It is a practical consideration to be able to set and retrieve information on how the browser renders a page. I'm not a browser developer, but I'm sure all browsers know the size of an element internally, surely they would have to to be able to render a page. It would be great to have a standard way of accessing this information. I'm quite suprised this issue hasn't been covered in the DOM before. > It's not very glamourous from a forward-looking point-of-view, but > I believe it'd help a lot of people if this area were standardised. It would definetly help anyone writing DHTML applications IMHO. Cameron.Received on Tuesday, 30 January 2001 06:31:26 GMT
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