Fwd: CSS WG - Pulling Back the Curtains

(I'm not on the w3c internal list -> back to the public list)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: CSS WG - Pulling Back the Curtains
To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
Cc: w3c-css-wg@w3.org


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:57 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
 > On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
 >
 >  > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:37 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:
 >  >> On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Garrett Smith wrote:
 >  >>
 >  >>> In safari 3.1, this doesn't even work:-
 >  >>> document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el,
 >  >>> '').getPropertyValue('left')
 >  >>>
 >  >>
 >  >> http://bugs.webkit.org/
 >  >>
 >
 >  Ok, so bug http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18175 is the one you
 >  filed.
 >
 >  The object in question is not positioned, so we return "auto" as the
 >  computed value.  Is that actually incorrect?  If you positioned it, we
 >  would then return 100px.

 Read the bug rep't. Click the attachment -> view source.




 >
 >  We don't return the original back end CSS value if the front end value
 >  ends up resolving to something different.  (We do the same with z-
 >  index on an unpositioned element as well for example.)  Maybe this is
 >  a bug.  I'm not sure.  Perhaps others could comment.
 >
 >  However, I hardly think it's the major issue you're making it out to
 >  be, since in the absence of positioning those values would be ignored
 >  when rendering anyway.
 >
 >  dave
 >  (hyatt@apple.com)
 >
 >

Received on Friday, 28 March 2008 19:10:15 UTC