- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:54:37 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > Maybe we should change it to "For the purposes of calculating the static > position, the containing block of fixed positioned elements is the initial > containing block instead of the viewport, and all scrollable boxes > should be assumed to be scrolled to their origin." or some such? I think that would be reasonably unambiguous, but then I have a followup question. Do actual implementations behave this way? Mozilla up through a few days ago may, but I'm not even sure about that... That is, is there a reason for specifying a complicated algorithm here, just enough different from the absolute positioning one that you probably have to implement them separately, instead of specifying something simple? If there are existing implementations that behave in this way and pages depending on it, I suppose that could be considered such a reason... are there? -Boris
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