- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:38:34 -0400
- To: Ben Cotterell <ben.cotterell@antplc.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Ben Cotterell wrote: >> This appears to have been clarified since the last public draft. > > Not just clarified, changed. It now says positioned descendents are part > of the parent stacking context. Previously they only were if they had > z-index of not auto. In Appendix E.... >> Note also that section 9.5 has similar verbiage: >> >> The contents of floats are stacked as if floats generated new stacking >> contexts, except that any positioned elements and elements that >> actually create new stacking contexts take part in the float's parent >> stacking context. > > Yes, it used to say: > > The contents of floats are stacked as if floats generated new > stacking contexts, except that any elements that actually create new > stacking contexts take part in the float's parent's stacking context. > A float can overlap other boxes in the normal flow As I said, the last public draft says the same thing as the current internal draft. I can definitely believe that it got changed from some precious draft, sure. > Anyway, thanks very much for your input. We'll go with the latest public > draft and I should stop working from my slightly out-of-date pdf. Er... yes. Some of the changes that have been happening are pretty fundamental to the way you'd design things, if implementing from scratch.... -Boris
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