- From: Adam Kuehn <akuehn@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:22:23 -0400
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian wrote: >Why is there no ability to set a box relative to another box in flow? >Why can't I tell an arbitrary element to be relative to another >arbitrary element. I think one short answer is because it destroys progressive rendering. If element A is first in the source, but is set relative to element Z at the end of the source, you are going to have to parse all the way down to element Z before you can render A. Many of the new proposals in CSS3 are limited in scope expressly to preserve progressive rendering. I'm sure the browsers developers in the crowd can give you some other reasons, as well. -- -Adam Kuehn
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