- From: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:21:17 -0600
- To: public-tt <public-tt@w3.org>
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According to XSL-FO 1.1 Section 7.6.1 [1], the following apply: absolute The area's position (and possibly size) is specified with the "left", "right", "top", and "bottom" properties. These properties specify offsets with respect to the area's nearest ancestor reference area. Absolutely positioned areas are taken out of the normal flow. This means they have no impact on the layout of later siblings. Also, though absolutely positioned areas have margins, they do not collapse with any other margins. fixed The area's position is calculated according to the "absolute" model, but in addition, the area is fixed with respect to some reference. In the case of continuous media, the area is fixed with respect to the viewport (and doesn't move when scrolled). In the case of paged media, the area is fixed with respect to the page, even if that page is seen through a viewport (in the case of a print-preview, for example). Authors may wish to specify "fixed" in a media-dependent way. For instance, an author may want an area to remain at the top of the viewport on the screen, but not at the top of each printed page. It would seem that we would want to specify 'fixed' to have the desired semantics of specifying a anonymously generated region (due to presence of tts:origin or tts:extent on a content element) in reference to the viewport, i.e., screen. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#absolute-position
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