- From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:03:05 -0700
- To: "'Brian Behlendorf'" <brian@organic.com>, "'Hakon Lie'" <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Internet Explorer 3 beta2 supports negative margins, you can grab it today off our site. You can get some truly stunning effects with this. -Thomas Reardon >---------- >From: Hakon Lie[SMTP:howcome@w3.org] >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 1996 7:36 AM >To: Brian Behlendorf >Cc: www-style@w3.org >Subject: negative margins? > >Brian Behlendorf writes: > > > I'm watching Microsoft's style sheets informercial on the Mbone right now > > (hi Bert!). They are making a big deal about being able to indicate > > *negative* inter-text margins to accomplish layering of text over text for > > Wired-magazine-ish effects. Is this a, uh, recommended piece of > > functionality? > >Yes. This has been one of the sticking issues in the past, but based >on implementation experience in Arena and MSIE it will probably go in >-- it's not that hard!. Negative indentation and margins enable som >very interesting visual effects -- see [1] for some screen shots using >CSS an MSIEb2. The specification will probably have some wording about >implementation-specific limitations on negative values. > >[1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/css/msie/img/ > >Regards, > >-h&kon > >Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France >http://www.w3.org/people/howcome howcome@w3.org > >
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