- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:02:28 +0100
- To: "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:00:22 +0100, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> > wrote: >> Should we extend ClientRect with a height and width attribute? > > TextRectangle is called ClientRect now. I actually like this. It > attempts to avoid any anomalous incomapatability issues with IE. That's not true actually as explained in the e-mails that led to this change. >> They are >> somewhat redundant as you can calculate height by bottom-top and width >> by right-left, but having them directly available is convenient for >> authors and very low cost for implementors. >> >> Thoughts? > > I usually just use el.offsetHeight offsetLeft which seem to work as > specified in the browsers. That doesn't work for anonymous block boxes, caption boxes, and non-HTML elements. > Where is the test suite for ClientRect? There's no formal test suite yet that I know of. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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