- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:31:43 -0700
- To: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Cc: Richard York <richy@smilingsouls.net>, <www-style@w3.org>
On 5/27/04 5:11 PM, "Justin Wood" <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu> wrote: > Tantek Çelik wrote: > >> On 5/27/04 2:16 PM, "Justin Wood" <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >>> The solution to your problem, which IS NOT a final spec though (so not >>> sure how good it would be to put in a book) is the css-property: >>> 'box-sizing' in the CSS3 Box Model spec [1]. >>> >>> >> >> Correction: 'box-sizing' is already in the CSS3 Basic User Interface >> specification which is a Candidate Recommendation (CR), and implementations >> (and uses) are officially encouraged. >> >> At least two working implementations already exist (IE5/Mac and Opera 7.5), >> and Mozilla implements box-sizing with alternate syntax. >> >> [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#box-sizing> >> >> Tantek >> >> >> >> > Tantek, > You leave me corrected, I had thought I seen it in a CR spec, but > forgot it was the UI one to look in, found it in box model, so said that.... > > Now, correct me if I am wrong but IE5-Mac does 'not' support the > box-sizing property Yes you are mistaken. IE5/Mac *does* support the 'box-sizing' property. > only it supports IE's mistaken use of the > box-sizing, IE5/Mac *does* has a default style sheet rule for box-sizing to border-box *only* when in "compat/quirks" mode. > which means that "border-box" is all it supports, no > property needed ;-) Quite the contrary. IE5/Mac not only supports the CSS box model, but was the first browser to pass the CSS1 test suite. Tantek
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