RE: interpretation of "auto" for block-level elements

> If a box should use the width of its contents then it means that
> it cannot be
> rendered before all its contents is present, so your suggestion
> would pretty
> much spoil incremental display of quite a lot of pages, or larger parts of
> these pages.

Quite the opposite, actually.  This suggestion is for elements with
"position: absolute", which are not affected by incremental re-flow.