Re: [css3-text-layout] New editor's draft - margin-before/after/start/end etc.

Also sprach David Hyatt:

 > I can't speak for Mozilla, but in WebKit our *-start and *-end
 > properties are faked. When applied to an element they resolve
 > immediately to left or right (depending on the direction). We don't
 > carry around a real notion (possibly inherited) that the start side
 > should be used.

So, you are not storing separate values for *-start/end, nor do you
remember whether the physical values come from *-start/end or not?
>From this test, it seems you do remember some information:

  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2010/tests/log.html

That is, when the direction is changed from ltr to rtl through DOM,
the padding switches sides.

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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