Dynamic positioning of page elements within Amaya

Amaya does not appear to support dynamic positioning attributes such as 
position: absolute, position: relative and position: fixed. This is 
unfortunate because these attributes appear to be standards compliant 
and are increasingly popular with web developers. Refer to 
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_class_position.asp for details.

The positioning attributes can be used in association with top: and left 
and margin -top margin-left position reference attributes, enabling 
those elements to be dynamically dragged into position. The z-index 
attribute then allows elements to be stacked in a desired order one on 
top of another so that text for example can be displayed above an image. 
Refer to http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_z-index.asp for details.

If the dynamic positioning and stacking of attributes were to be 
permitted within Amaya (currently, Amaya wipes all of these attributes 
from the code when Code clean up is applied), then dynamic positioning 
and element stacking should only be available when specially requested 
by a developer, in order to avoid client users who onlly wist to edit 
text within a pre designed page cannot accidentally disturb the 
underlying page design and layout.

Within many page editors, dynamic positioning is usually only applied to 
div tags, although it is possible to successfully apply dynamic 
positioning attributes to images, tables and other elements within a 
number of browser based page editors, enabling elements to be easily and 
intuitively dragged into position within a page, and each elements 
stacking order can be adjusted where appropriate.

Received on Sunday, 8 February 2009 02:15:43 UTC