- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:32:45 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian wrote: >After thinking about this, I've determined that it's forwards >compatibility is nice, but difficult to achieve if you're not very >careful. > >So I thought about the guidelines for this and I present them here. > >1) No new property should require non-normal values of old properties >to work (e.g. display: absolute and margin). > > That is already the case, at least in the example you provide. The top:, left:, bottom: and right: properties are meant to be used in conjunction with absolute positioning. That is precisely why I asked why Kris did use margin instead. He was unnecessarily mixing two posioning methods. Of course, when margin is used to create spacing *within* absolutely positioned areas, as I believe Kris did in a later example, it is relatively safe and correct. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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