Re: Unlogical width with percentages

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:

> I thought the box-sizing was introduced because of IE, and that IE had
> border-box as default. Now Ian sais it is margin-box. Or is Erik
> Arvidsson's formula not IE's formula?

IE5 does 'margin-box'. See the Web Standards Project review:

   http://www.webstandards.org/css/winie/box_horiz.html

The 'box-sizing' property was [apparently] introduced for compatability
with HTML UAs, i.e. probably for compatability with the "size" attribute
of the <input> element.

The point is moot if all four values are implemented, though, since then  
the stylesheet author can do whatever he likes. (And can also work around
a huge bug in IE5 in a standards compliant way.)
  
--
Ian Hickson
"I take a Professor Bullett approach to my answers. There's a high
probability that they may be right."
  -- Dr Snow; Mechanics Lecturer at Bath University; 1999-03-04