- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:37:07 +0100 (BST)
- To: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@heeten.nl>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Sjoerd Visscher wrote: > I thought the box-sizing was introduced because of IE, and that IE had > border-box as default. Now Ian sais it is margin-box. Or is Erik > Arvidsson's formula not IE's formula? IE5 does 'margin-box'. See the Web Standards Project review: http://www.webstandards.org/css/winie/box_horiz.html The 'box-sizing' property was [apparently] introduced for compatability with HTML UAs, i.e. probably for compatability with the "size" attribute of the <input> element. The point is moot if all four values are implemented, though, since then the stylesheet author can do whatever he likes. (And can also work around a huge bug in IE5 in a standards compliant way.) -- Ian Hickson "I take a Professor Bullett approach to my answers. There's a high probability that they may be right." -- Dr Snow; Mechanics Lecturer at Bath University; 1999-03-04
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