Re: Shadows vs. layout

On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> David Hyatt wrote:
>> You're saying the engine has to track shadows as visual overflow  
>> for the purposes of accurate container repainting, but then somehow  
>> track a completely second set of visual overflow numbers that  
>> exclude shadows just to ensure that you don't include shadow  
>> overflow when scrolling?
>
> Basically.
>
> Note that Gecko is planning to do just that; it's needed anyway to  
> deal with fonts where glyphs don't fit inside their claimed bounding  
> box (unless you think that that situation should also trigger  
> scrollbars, basically any time you have justified text in such a  
> font and such a glyph at end of line?).

I do think it should trigger scrollbars yes.

dave
(hyatt@apple.com)