- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:44:25 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: Jack Smiley <zxcv_890@hotmail.com>
On 07/04/2011 22:14, Anton Prowse wrote: > On 04/04/2011 23:19, Jack Smiley wrote: >> >> Referring to section 10.1 Definition of "containing block", >> >> "For continuous media, [the ICB] has the dimensions of the viewport >> and is anchored at the canvas origin..." >> >> I >> don't see the term "canvas origin" defined anywhere in the spec. Where >> is the canvas origin and what is the implication of having the ICB >> anchored to it? > > I suppose the canvas origin is where the top-left corner of the margin > area box of the root element would be if it had position:static, and the > ICB's top-left corner is incident with that point. That was rather careless. How about: ...if it had position:static and non-auto margin-left, in ltr mode; and in rtl mode it's the top-right corners and margin-right that we consider. > This should probably be made a little clearer in the spec. ;-) Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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