Re: [css3-background] does border-radius round the border-image ?

On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Brad Kemper wrote:
>>> 3) Even when the author may expect a scroll box to not obscure  
>>> content, there are cases where it does so anyway, already. I found  
>>> such a case last year, involving absolutely positioned contents [2].
>>
>>> [2] http://bradclicks.com/cssplay/scrolling%20lists.html (second  
>>> to last example on the page)
>>
>> Could you elaborate on this example a little?  In various browsers  
>> I see that the abspos markers are not rendered on the left.   
>> However, this seems to me a bug
>
> Perhaps. But when I see the same thing in every browser I test with,  
> it makes me question if it is really a bug or if I just don't know  
> why it's doing it.
>
>> (after all, vertical overflow on the ancestor UL is set to visible)  
>> and not related in any way to the presence (or otherwise) of the  
>> scrolling mechanism.  Am I missing the point here?
>
> Well, the bug does not appear unless overflow is hidden, scroll, or  
> auto on the ancestor "UL" DIV. Thus my point that  "scroll" or  
> "auto" does not always mean the contents will be visible, even  
> baring influence of ouside elements.
>>
>>

I forgot to add that even IE8 exhibits the same behavior, so I really  
tend to think it must be a "feature, not a bug". Or an unanticipated  
side effect of a feature.

Received on Friday, 23 January 2009 03:06:52 UTC