Re: Defining safe areas for media devices and set top boxes

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mikko Rantalainen <
mikko.rantalainen@peda.net> wrote:

> :root {
> padding: 1px 2px 3px 4px !important;
> }
>
> Where numbers 1-4 are set according to user input (using some kind of
> test image, probably).
>
> This prevents real content from ever going "under the frame" and still
> allows background to fill the screen. If an author decides to use
> negative margins for e.g. body element, the content may end up "under
> the frame", but that's expected.
>
> Do you have any examples, where a simple user style sheet such as one
> above would not be enough to fix the "my display incorrectly crops the
> content" problem?
>

A position:fixed or position:absolute element at the edge of the viewport.

Rob
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