- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:20:01 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 3/29/13 2:01 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> Because then you can't round-trip 'width', which is *weird*. > > Round-trip in the sense of assigning a used value to a specified value? > Apart from getComputedStyle consumers (assuming that keeps using "used > width"), where would this ever happen. I can't recall details now, but when writing Flexbox, there were some serious concerns when writing the layout algorithm with how 'box-sizing' interacted with various things. We ended up ignoring the properties altogether when possible, and just referring to the appropriate box directly. >>> Well, do we have a spec that actually defines block layout anymore? ;) >> >> Nope! > > People do realize that there are projects that are trying to actually > implement CSS layout based on the output of this working group (as opposed > to insider knowledge, personal communication with working group memebers, > and reverse-engineering of existing UAs, which is how it seems to work for > most of us so far), right? :( Yup, it definitely sucks. ~TJ
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