- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:20:44 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Peter-Paul Koch wrote: > > Interesting. This is trickier than I thought. I made a mistake by > appending the repeat element to documentElement instead of body, and > more research is necessary. Oh, that's a long-standing IE bug with CSS. It treats the <body> element as the root of the document tree for rendering purposes, not the <html> element as it should. > Because I want to start using it right away instead of in five years (at > which date it won't be supported by you-know-which-browser, which will > probably still have a large market share, and at which date there will > be some incompatibilities between browsers that do support the > specification). The timeline for this is not yet well-defined, but it is intended to be a lot shorter than five years, I assure you. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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