- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:51:28 -0800
- To: Joe Hewitt <joe@joehewitt.com>, www-style@w3.org
>From: "Joe Hewitt" <joe@joehewitt.com>
>Date: Tue, Feb 29, 2000, 10:47 AM
<snip>
> In my humble opinion, B is a better solution. There are no messy swapping
> of definitions. You simply tell the box what size it's regions are, and how
> to cope if they are too big for their britches ("width").
Note that box-sizing applies to width *and* height. It is also fully backward
compatible with CSS-1 and CSS-2 definitions of width and height. And finally,
adding one controlling property ("box-sizing") is preferable to adding two
alternative properties ("content-width" and "content-height").
Tantek
Received on Tuesday, 29 February 2000 13:52:06 UTC