Re: [cssom-view] padding edge / border edge for offsetTop/offsetLeft?

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:45:07 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> 
> wrote:
>> Or am I missing something?
> 
> I was. The offsetParent for this scenario is magical and hasLayout 
> changes the offsetParent chain.


Since this is relating to CSSOM and HTML5 which IE8 will not support and 
since IE8 'doesn't' have the 'hasLayout' hack/bug [1] why not just 
ignore what IE5~IE7 does. Then the quirks mode of IE9 will be IE8 
standard mode behavior. This seems the sensible approach for 
interoperability.

IE8 still has the old bug [2] where the background-color doesn't begin 
at the border box (this may be corrected in a later beta ???) but does 
this also apply for in IE8 when the parent has a border? I can not test 
locally anymore. :-)


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0151.html
[2] http://www.brunildo.org/test/BackgroundBorder2.html


Alan