Re: Shadows vs. layout

David Hyatt wrote:
>
> I also don't think it's as simple as just throwing a sentence into the 
> shadows section.  Two other examples (glyphs and border images) have 
> been brought up as well.  WebKit also has its own custom text stroking 
> CSS properties, which are somewhat similar to the glyph problem.
> 
> We're talking about really changing the definition of what overflow is 
> here and breaking it up into two categories.  If this is really how 
> people want to proceed, I think we'd need better defined language in the 
> actual overflow section of the CSS spec to explain how the two types of 
> overflow work.
> 
> Especially in the vertical case, though, the idea of not being able to 
> scroll to shadows or border images or glyphs that spill out really 
> doesn't feel right to me.

I would expect the author to provide adequate margins or padding in these
cases.

I'm not sure about border-image outside the border area, whether that should
trigger scrolling or not. I'm leaning towards leaving the standard behavior.
But shadows definitely should not trigger scrolling.

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 3 August 2009 21:09:18 UTC