- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:04:47 -0700
- To: "Anne van Kesteren (fora)" <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
Thanks a lot, Anne, Your explanation makes sense for me. My add-on to motivation set: only this schema really allows to use standard % length units in boxes with non null paddings and borders (margins are still waiting for a solution). Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com > > By the way: > > > > As far as I understand the main reason of box-sizing mode > > introduction was to support layouts like in example section of the > > link above. > > Another reason was that some browsers already implemented support for it > (MacIE, Opera, Mozilla) and that WinIE (all versions excluding WinIE 6.0 > in standard compliant rendering) implemented the wrong box model. So > this was an easy way to workaround browser limitations, which was > already widely implemented so it was a logical move (imo) to include it > in the 'css3-ui' draft (and later it will be placed in 'css3-box'). > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> >
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