Re: modal dialog and fullscreen API

Hi Sam, I read Anne's comments differently

I think he was suggesting that this part of the proposal[1] be dropped or
left out as it defines rendering rules that are in conflict witht the
fullscreen stuff:

"::cover

This pseudo-element matches the object under the dialog used to cover the
rest of the page. Only modal dialogs have covers. When visible, it is fixed
positioned, with its top, right, bottom, and left edges at the
corresponding edges of the viewport.

The dialog and its cover, taken together, are siblings within a new
stacking context which is placed above all other stacking contexts. The
cover has z-index -1 within this stacking context, and the dialog z-index
0."

I don't see a major issue either way as content is added to the spec all
the time by the editor that is later modified or removed, if it would
achieve greater consensus this section could be marked "to do"

The main point is to get the modal spec text in some form into the HTML5
spec for wider reveiw and hopefully implementation.

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Eoconnor/ISSUE-133#::cover

regards

Steve

On 17 November 2011 11:38, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:

> On 11/17/2011 05:58 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:27:12 +0100, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I could have chosen to close this issue by amicable consent last week:
>>>
>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/public-html/2011Nov/**0016.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Nov/0016.html>
>>>
>>> Instead, I am asking to see if there is anybody actively working on a
>>> new proposal, and if so, what is the expected timeframe for that
>>> proposal to be complete?
>>>
>>> Whether fullscreen is new information enough isn't the right question.
>>> The right question is: is somebody working on a proposal? If not, we
>>> should simply declare consensus and move on. If so, all I ask is that
>>> they let us know.
>>>
>>
>> And what we are saying, is that from the only proposal on the table, the
>> exact rendering is still to be determined.
>>
>
> I read that as you have no objections to the current proposal, and that
> you are asserting that the "new information" that you cited does not affect
> the proposal.
>
>
>  And asking the editor to put
>> in the rendering rules from that proposal is thus counter productive.
>>
>
> Nobody is doing that.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
>
>


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