- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:47:48 -0500
On 5/8/07, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > > On May 8, 2007, at 19:32, Dean Edwards wrote: > > > Kind of like an <iframe> but without an external source. > > My understanding is that main issue with iframe isn't the external > source but that the view port establishment. > > I wonder if this issue could be solved on the layout/CSS level by > providing a way to make the height of an iframe depend on the actual > height of the root element of the document loaded in the iframe. That > is, would it be feasible to make the iframe contents have the layout/ > UI feel of a part of the parent page while keeping the DOMs and > script security contexts separate? > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen at iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box/#intrinsic0 (and also CSS2 10.6) Since CSS doesn't attempt to specify the intrinsic width of a document in an iframe, maybe HTML5 should specify that the intrinsic width of a document is: - if the CSS width property is specified on the html element, the margin-box of the page at that width (which may have overflow) - else, if the CSS min-width property is specified on the html element, the margin-box of the page at that width (which may have overflow) - else, the smallest width the page can have without horizontal scrolling and the intrinsic height of the document is: - if the CSS height or min-height property are set, similar to above, - else, the smallest height the page can have at the intrinsic width of the document without vertical scrolling -- Jon Barnett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070508/63906d76/attachment.htm>
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