Re: Positioned Layout proposal

On 10/19/10 12:14 PM, Shelby Moore wrote:
> How does it "complicate" orthogonal algorithms? For example, a visual
> bounds test walks the element tree

No UA I'm aware of walks the element tree here; all would operate on the 
box model instead...

> If pagination algorithm has been designed to be sufficiently orthogonal,
> then afaics it should also not be touched for this proposal. Are you
> concerned or aware that some layout engines may not be coded with
> sufficiently orthogonal (non-spaghetti) design?

"All of them", I would expect.

> I do not know what you mean by "incremental update"? Is that an algorithm
> that bypasses full document relayout computation?

Yes.  The thing that happens any time you change the DOM, resize the 
window, etc.  The hard part of implementing CSS, in many ways.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:32:04 UTC