Re: Section 10.3.8 really needs to be fixed

On Tuesday 2008-01-22 13:49 -0600, David Hyatt wrote:
> The spec is just plain wrong.  The results it gives don't match the common 
> sense rendering that Web site authors would expect for:
>
> <iframe style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0"></iframe>
>
> If I specify a top, bottom, right and left of 0, then why on earth should 
> the object's intrinsic width or height override?  It's completely 
> counter-intuitive that you can't use this pattern to stretch an iframe or 
> image in CSS2.1.

Is the same true for images?  I thought the issue here is that, for
this case, iframes act somewhere between replaced and non-replaced,
rather than that the rules for replaced elements in general were
wrong.  Is that not the case?

-David

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Received on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 19:58:57 UTC