- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:22:05 -0500
- To: "Benjamin D. Smedberg" <bsmedberg@covad.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Benjamin D. Smedberg wrote: > IE supports "position", but it does not support "position: fixed". The point was that IE/Win itself claims to support "position: fixed". Consider that the stylesheet: position: absolute; position: fixed; is treated differently from the stylesheet: position: absolute; in IE/Win. A browser with no "position:fixed" support should treat those two identically. Your proposal is depending on browsers not lying about their capabilities (while at the same time giving them some incentive to do so). As one can see from the above example, this may not be a reasonable dependency... In any case, all this has been discussed on this list before (including related issues like the difference or lack thereof between lack of support and user stylesheets overriding part of the page sheet and so forth). I don't have urls to the archived mails on the subject off the top of my head, but searching the archives may be a good start. -Boris
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