Re: [css3-2d-transforms] Should a transformed element reflow its content ?

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>wrote:

>  Well, I find this behavior to be really weird. The content did **not**
> cause any overflow, the transform did. So this visual effect that supposedly
> happens post-layout turns out to change the rendering of the object being
> transformed to reflect the presence of scrollbars that wouldn’t be there if
> it wasn’t for the transform. It doesn’t seem that great perf-wise either.
>

Maybe so, although I think you can optimize pretty well for the case where
there no visible scrollbars could be affected.

Maybe the "post-layout" aspect was oversold (by who?), but I do think this
behaviour is best for users and authors. If you want to be able to scroll to
see overflowing content, presumably you want to be able to see transformed
content too.

Rob
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