- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:15:27 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
- Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1307232112510.27623@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-07-23 20:44, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Jukka K. Korpela > > <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote: > > > Is this described somewhere in HTML or CSS specifications or drafts? > > > I think it should be, since it is what browsers do (tested on > > > Firefox, Chrome, IE), and even though it sounds absurd, I’m afraid > > > pages may rely on it. A natural place to look at is > > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#the-page > > > but I can’t find any statement about the body element extending to > > > cover the viewport as far as backgrounds are considered. > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/colors.html#background > > Thanks for the prompt reply. Makes things clear. On the practical side, > however, I wonder whether this part of CSS specifications should be > referred to in the Rendering section, as it is logically rather > unexpected. There's a lot of these kinds of things (e.g. lots of things are dependent on quirks mode, there's a bunch more like the background that are dependent on the MIME type, etc). Short of duplicating the entire CSS spec in the HTML spec (which would be my preference, modulo logistics around editing -- I think we should just have one "Web" spec), it seems impractical to actually mention all of them in the HTML spec. This is why we don't list them currently. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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