Re: Clarification needed for inline boxes containing block boxes from Boris Zbarsky on 2009-02-27 (www-style@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:45:55 -0500
To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <49A834E3.9020001@mit.edu>

David Hyatt wrote:
> I guess my point was we should be careful about being too explicit about 
> how the rendered tree has to be implemented, since a literal 
> interpretation of the spec leads to pretty undesirable performance 
> characteristics.

Sure.  As long as it's specified sufficiently that behavior is black-box 
identical in terms of where backgrounds and so forth are drawn, of course.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 27 February 2009 18:46:45 UTC