- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:48:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brian Blakely <anewpage.media@gmail.com>
- Cc: "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Brian Blakely wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Brian Blakely wrote: > > > > > > This is what the shadow DOM would look like for modal dialogs: > > > > > > ::modal > > > - ::backdrop > > > - <dialog> > > > > > > ::modal is <dialog>'s ancestor, and is available when showModal is > > > called. This allows authors to set CSS overflow to whichever value > > > suits their use-case, and for user agents to establish overflow: > > > auto as the default, making the dialog inherently pannable when it > > > exceeds the viewport. > > > > That seem somewhat novel, from the CSS perspective. I'll have to defer > > to implementors as to how feasible something like that is. [...] > > ::modal is essentially a named alias for ::outside ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/#wrapping), which, sadly, has not been > implemented anywhere and hasn't seen public movement in quite a long > while. Yeah. ::outside is pretty novel also, from a CSS perspective. That might well be why it hasn't gone anywhere since I originally specced it in early 2002/2003. I think it'd be great for it to be implemented, but we're more likely to get there by pushing ::outside than trying to push a special case version of it, I think. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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