- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:36:49 +0000
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Nikodem wrote: > > position:relativeto(idref): The same as 'relative', but relative to the I am pretty sure you mean absolute. > element with ID idref. > What (even if obvious to you) is the use case, i.e. what operation that is commonly needed (maybe also wanted) and must be done browser side does this make possible which isn't reasonably possible already? What happens before a forward reference is resolved? What happens if a forward reference is never resolved? What if there is a chain of references? What happens if such a chain proves circular? If you really meant relative, which element has its height determined by the selected element, and how are height changes handled? What is the performance impact of dynamically changing a style sheet such that the reference point changes? These and similar questions really need to be considered in any feature request. Note that, although features that break incremental rendering are being added, such features need to be given more consideration than features that can be rendered in one pass, as fixing up the display, or stalling rendering, are annoying to users. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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