- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:23:05 +1000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Ingo Chao <i4chao@googlemail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Ingo Chao wrote: >> Browsers are rendering this differently, and they seem to move in >> different directions, see composite screenshot >> http://satzansatz.de/w3/bfcfloat.png > > Note that part of that is due to the s/margin-box/border-box/ change you > point out. > >> Making the overflow-hidden box narrower so it >> clips its own content even if there is no width set seems >> counterintuitive to me. > > Sadly, websites seem to somewhat depend on that behavior. That was a > major reason for the change from Firefox 3 beta 5 to Firefox 3 RC1 that > you see in your screenshot. > > -Boris Boris, what websites depend on a behavior that is clearly undefined? Overflow boxes with either values of 'hidden' or 'auto' show no consistency across the various implementations when they are adjacent to floats (I will provide a screenshot later). Here is a test case with 'auto'. http://css-class.com/test/css/viseffects/overflow-box-next-to-float.htm I have brought this up before (chaotically :-) in January this year. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0265.html Alan
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