- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:40:04 +0200
- To: "Mike Wilson" <mikewse@hotmail.com>, "'Www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Daniel Glazman'" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:28:30 +0200, Mike Wilson <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote: > Though, the CSSOM scheme will break down if you want to know the > offset to the body element as there is no way to get at this > information. > > In particular, as Garrett pointed out, this offset is available in all > browsers except Opera (and CSSOM) when using position:relative on the > body element: > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--cssom-view--small-update-p16063070.html Following that (special casing position:relative on the HTML body element) would break finding the position of an element within the page, as I explained here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0366.html And as that's what these attributes are used for primarily I don't think that's a better solution. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:40:20 UTC