Re: [css3-flexbox] Fixing the "replaced elements may or may not be inline" issue

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 5/16/12 8:42 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> <fieldset>  is display:block already, so it's not troublesome.
>
> Hmm.  I guess that's OK; if someone styles it as display:inline they're
> asking for the non-default handling.

Right.  We're solely trying to handle the things that may be either
inline or atomic-inline based on used-value-time data.  For
consistency, we're handling some that are always atomic inlines, like
<input>.


>> Is<progress>  (and<meter>) ever a replaced element?
>
> It certainly is in Gecko.
>
> And I don't see how it wouldn't be per spec.  Given
>
>  <progress>Some text</progress>
>
> in a browser supporting <progress>, is the "Some text" rendered?  If not,
> it's clearly a replaced element.
>
> I would assume <meter> is the same; I missed that one because it wasn't in
> the code I was looking at.  ;)

Good point.  I'll put it on the list.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:17:57 UTC