- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:12:44 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On 7/19/10, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 7/19/10 3:39 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: >> On 7/19/10, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: >>> On 7/19/10 2:50 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: >>>> So the problem is where the property is a getter and that getter has >>>> side effects and the side effects include modifying the DOM. >>> >> >> [...] >> >>> In Gecko, sure. For example offsetWidth. >>> >> >> What is the side effect in the DOM from getting offsetWidth? > > In Gecko, due to the existence of XBL, arbitrary script can run under > the getter (since getting offsetWidth requires flushing out pending > style and layout changes and flushing out pending style changes can > attach XBL bindings and run their constructors). > Wouldn't pending layout changes need to be flushed prior to the query? Garrett
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