Re: [CSSOM] Interaction of getBoundingClientRect/getClientRects with transforms

On Aug 31, 2010, at 8:52 am, Brad Kemper wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:
> 
>>> For what it's worth, Gecko's behavior here is to determine a separate transform-origin for each box that's generated and then apply the transform to each box separately.  This means that something like:
>>> 
>>> <span style="-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);">x<br>x</span>
>>> 
>>> gets rendered with the two boxes offset from each other vertically by the line height and not offset horizontally and each rotated by 45 degrees clockwise.
>> 
>> That's probably what we'd want to do in WebKit. It's a bit odd, especially with rotations, but I think it makes more sense than transforming  all the boxes together (even though that would be easier for us to implement).
> 
> It seems unexpected to me. I expect it to act more like position:relative. Can you explain why it makes more sense, and what use case would benefit by doing the child inlines separately?

Position: relative only lets you offset the boxes horizontally or vertically, so I don't think it informs on this issue. What do you expect to happen when a split <span> has a rotation transform?

Simon