- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:35:15 +0100
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Alex Mogilevsky:
> Unlike regular box model, percentage values of page margins are not
> from width but from the direction of margin (width for left/right
> and height for top/bottom).
Yes.
> I realize this is too late to change, there must be implementations
> with this definition (are there?)
Yes.
> but am just curious why this has to be inconsistent with box model
> elsewhere? I am not sure I see use cases that are strong enough to
> make it different...
Pages have a known fixed size when content is laid out, this is not
the case for other boxes.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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