- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:54:44 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@W3.ORG>
fantasai wrote: > Alex, do we need to make a clarification here to avoid the IE<8 > interpretation? > I would have expected that the "if its 'position' property had been > 'static'" > bit would require guessing the position using the specified (not used) > display property. Note that the latter is what Gecko implements, and is not necessarily equivalent to the former. Consider these styles: display: inline; float: left; position: absolute; If the position were static, computed (and used) display would be "block", while specified display is "inline". See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237770 for some discussion on this. Explicitly saying that the specified value should be used here makes things clearer, though it's not quite right if the specified value is "inherit" or "initial". -Boris
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