Re: [geometry] DOMMatrix with DOMString argument

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 5/23/14, 5:27 PM, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>
>> These values can not be resolved without the context of an Element.
>>
>
> An Element is not enough, right?  You need an actual box to resolve
> percentages.


I think we're looking for a "styled" element and use its box.


>  So we would still need a fallback behavior if no Element was passed. I am
>> also not sure what happens it Element is not attached to a document.
>>
>
> Or is display:none, or is attached to an XHR responseXML document, etc,
> right.


It has to be part of a document and have a layout box. Do we have a term
for such a thing?