- From: Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:04:50 -0700
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:10, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > Erik didn't say which rect the other browsers return, but it seems to be the > anonymous container box that contains the table box and the caption box, in > Webkit and Opera at least. That's inconsistent with the behaviour for > anonymous block boxes, where we drill down to return the non-anonymous > descendants. And as you observe, it is also less useful since there is then > no way to obtain the table box. Other browsers return the anonymous container box. > For what it's worth, it would have been a few fewer lines of code for us to > return the anonymous container box, but I suggested and implemented the > spec's behaviour because it seemed better. I brought this up because WebKit uses the Mozilla tests and of course they fail for us. I wanted to know more about the reasoning behind this before I go and fix WebKit. > I'm not aware of any Web compatibility issues here; a cursory search doesn't > reveal any bugs about it in our bug database. Thanks -- erik
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