- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:48:45 -0500
- To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
This issue has already been fixed in WebKit. dave (hyatt@apple.com) On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Anton Prowse wrote: > Jorrit Vermeiren wrote: >> It looks like this behaviour is "just" a vestige of CSS2. That says >> the following about percentage values: "For 'top' and 'bottom', if >> the >> height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it >> depends on content height), the percentage value is interpreted like >> 'auto'." [1] > > Indeed. > > My apologies to the list for not doing my research before posting; > this issue has already been raised before[1], and fantasai responded > saying,[2] > > > The spec was actually changed so that percentages for top/bottom > *do* > > work. Behavior in this case was previously explicitly undefined: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html#q53 > > So that means at some point the browser implementors discussed it > and > > decided it should be possible. I guess it just hasn't been done > yet :) > > The corresponding bug in Gecko is [3], in which Boris Zbarsky does > indeed state[4] that the behaviour currently implemented in Gecko is > that specified in CSS2. > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0139.html > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0152.html > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260348 > [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260348#c14 > > > Thanks, > Anton Prowse > http://dev.moonhenge.net >
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