Re: Proposal: dimension expressions

Interesting.

This came up for me a while ago. The behaviour of Internet Explorer was
to include borders and padding in the size of said box; although this
was not 'standards compliant,' it's potentially more useful and
compatible with existing content, so I also implemented it this way at
Liberate.

	Neil

David Eisenberg wrote:

> Background
> ==========
> Many web designers make websites using dimensions in percentages to keep
> the ratios of areas on the screen in pleasing proportion as the user agent
> window shrinks or grows. This liquid design becomes difficult with
> standards-compliant CSS, since a width specification describes only the
> content box, and not the padding, borders, or margins.  Thus, these
> classes

Received on Tuesday, 6 March 2001 11:03:49 UTC