- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:21:57 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Robert Stam <robert@tallcomponents.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 03/04/2010 07:42 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 3/4/10 10:19 AM, Robert Stam wrote: >> All CSS 2.1 properties that can be specified as length value are >> converted to the absolute length at the 'computed value' stage. >> >> However, the computed value of the 'clip' property is specified as 'For >> rectangle values, a rectangle consisting of four computed lengths; >> otherwise, as specified'. > > Right. In practice, the only value that can happen "otherwise" is "auto". > >> Does this mean (in deviation of all other properties) relative lengths >> are not converted to absolute lengths at this stage and can thus be >> inherited? > > No. > > That said, none of Presto, Webkit, Gecko implement this spec as it's > currently written, in that they compute "auto" values in the rect to > "auto", not to lengths [1]. Furthermore, the text for <shape> is > self-contradictory in that it says: > > The value 'auto' means that a given edge of the clipping region > will be the same as the edge of the element's generated border box > > but then talks about computed widths and heights. It presumably wants to > talk about used widths and heights, right? Can we get these two issues > corrected, please? Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 190: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-190 ~fantasai
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