On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Dirk Schulze <vbs85@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 25.10.2010 um 22:48 schrieb Robert O'Callahan:
>
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but for "transform-origin" you don't define
> what the "bounding box" for an element in the CSS box model is. I guess from
> the CSS draft, it's "the element's CSS box" --- which is quite different in
> spirit to the SVG bounding box which "entirely encloses the element and its
> descendants". Maybe this should be noted; it's probably going to confuse
> authors. Or we could resolve the discrepancy by defining a new kind of SVG
> bounding box that only bounds the element and not its descendants, and
> defining transform-origin in terms of that.
>
> What would the new bounding box look like for containers, if we don't take
> descendants into account?
>
Yeah, good point. The SVG model, where all the visible content is at the
leaves, is just different. The spec still needs to be clarified though.
Rob
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