- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 06:39:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Boris Zbarsky 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? > > 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? I'd be happy with just saying "use top:0", but when I suggested that, I lost the argument. I forget why. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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