- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:10:52 -0400
- To: Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Mike Wilson wrote: > Oh, I would be very happy if browsers actually did support the |top| > property in this scenario, but Gecko, Safari and Opera all behave the > same in this respect, ie ignoring it, which is striking when being > off-spec. > > We also had a discussion over at css-discuss where arguments were > laid out why it had to be this way, correlating it to the (natural) > problems of doing the same with |height| property (that leads to > recursion). > > Personally I think it would be possible to fix this for the |top| > property, but what do all the browser implementor experts out there > say? > And if the spec wants it to be possible, we may need a clarification > for "that" so there is no chance of misinterpretation :-). The spec was actually changed so that percentages for top/bottom *do* work. Behavior in this case was previously explicitly undefined: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html#q53 So that means at some point the browser implementors discussed it and decided it should be possible. I guess it just hasn't been done yet. :) ~fantasai
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