- From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:10:06 +1300
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531 at gmail.com>wrote: > That would be cool to do it automatically. But, does using an overlay > guarantee that other elements can't be placed on top of it? If so, > then only the author of the page would know (by testing) that nothing > needs to go over the top of it. Or, is it trivial to code the browser > to look at the css applied on the page (and any behavior that might > later apply css) to determine that an overlay won't interfere with any > thing? If not, it seems like doing it automatically might break > things. But, like you said "if that makes sense". > What I mean by "automatically" is that we can detect when using an overlay won't break things, and use it when it won't break things. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20081017/6abf455b/attachment.htm>
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