Re: [css-display]? Compositing, expensive things, and laziness

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Nicholas Cameron <nick@ncameron.org>wrote:

> What happens with re-sizing? Assuming the display-optionality:optional
> element does not have fixed width/height and is in flow, then when the
> element does get rendered it might cause the rest of the document to need
> reflowing. That seems undesirable - users don't expect the webpage to
> randomly change some time after 'loading' is finished.
>

The idea is that this property has no effect on how layout works.
"Rendering" here just means painting.

Also, an idea: the default value is 'required' for visible elements, could
> we specify the default as 'optional' for invisible elements (display:none,
> visibility:hidden, etc)?
>

No. The default value of a CSS property can't depend on the values of other
properties. You could define an "auto" value that means "required" for
visible elements and "optional" for invisible ones. I'm not sure whether
that's a good idea...

Rob
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