- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:28:58 +0200
- To: "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:26:49 +0200, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: > HTML UAs may apply the overflow property from the BODY or HTML > elements to the viewport. What is the reason for that? About the only > reason I've gotten is "MSIE does it that way." Is it anything sensibly > logical? Is it congruent with the other rules in the spec? It's similar for the 'background' property. Without these rules, you'd need something like @canvas and @viewport just to be able to apply 'background' to the canvas and 'overflow' to the viewport. (And 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y'...) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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