- From: Jacob Refstrup <jrefstrup@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:21:24 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, Chris Jones <cjon@microsoft.com>, Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>
On May 18, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Also sprach Alex Mogilevsky: > >> Large subset of use cases for page floats is covered by "position:page; wrap-type:around" in this proposal. > > It seems that these are equivalent: > > position: page; > wrap-type: around; > top: 0; > ~~~ > float: top; > > and > > position: page; > wrap-type: around; > bottom: 0; > ~~~ > float: bottom; > > Is that right? > At first glance yes; but I don't think so: - if you assume that page float model implies (like the normal float model) that floats don't overlap and - that wrap-type affects how text wraps (and otherwise doesn't move boxes around) Then the difference would be that in the float: page case it would not overlap with any other floats; whereas in the position: page case it could/would overlap with other positioned elements. Kind regards, - Jacob
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