- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:10:24 -0500
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mar 28, 2008, at 6:10 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > > On Friday 2008-03-28 14:41 -0700, Alan Gresley wrote: >> 9.5.1 Positioning the float: the 'float' property >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#float-position >> >> >> In the listed rules under the heading "Here are the precise rules >> that >> govern the behavior of floats" >> >> There is no mention of the right edge for a left floated element or >> left edge of a right floated element. Since this is no mention of >> this >> opposing margin in the spec we now have two behaviors among browsers >> when elements are floated right. >> >> 1. This opposing left edge is ignored. >> 2. This opposing left edge is used. > > Since it's not mentioned (as you say), it's clearly ignored, according > to the current spec. This means that, according to the current spec > (and the test results you described), the use of the left edge when > positioning right floats in IE, Safari, and Opera 9.26 (but not 9.5) > is > a bug. I agree. http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18203 dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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