border size and combining units from Mjumbe Ukweli on 2001-06-28 (www-style@w3.org from June 2001)

From: Mjumbe Ukweli <mjumbewu@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:49:22 -0400
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <F242HfyQgeDKvPEkGhA0000fbf0@hotmail.com>

is there a reason that borders-widths cannot be percentage values?  it would 
make it that much easier to create fluid GUIs if they could.

also (and i believe that this was suggested a while ago, though i can't 
remember when or by whom) there should be some way to add two different 
units together to size an element:

elm1 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0%;
    width: 50%;

    margin: 10px;
}
elm2 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50% + 20px;   /* to accomodate elm1 */
    width: 50% - 20px;
}

                                                  &#8226; mjumbe &#8226;

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