Re: [css3-3d-transforms] perspective-origin and percentages

On Oct 13, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote:

>> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
>> Behalf Of Øyvind Stenhaug
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:52 AM
>> To: Simon Fraser
>> Cc: www-style@w3.org list
>> Subject: Re: [css3-3d-transforms] perspective-origin and percentages
>> 
>>> On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:32 pm, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
>> 
>>>> For percentages, the perspective-origin property definition [1]
>>>> resolves percentages as:
>>>> 
>>>> 	# refer to the size of the box itself
>>>> 
>>>> I assume this is identical to transform-origin in 2D Transforms [2]:
>>>> 
>>>> 	# refer to the size of the element's box
>> 
>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:43:44 +0200, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's correct. I'll fix the spec.
>> 
>> Even the definition 2D Transforms spec incorrectly assumes that there's
>> just one box per element.
>> 
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Sep/0121.html
>> 
>> --
>> Øyvind Stenhaug
>> Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
>> 
> 
> True. Also not sure 'size' is appropriate here. Does it mean the Y position
> percentage refers to the element's height while the X position refers to the
> element width ? Or that both refer to width ?

Y position refers to height.

There was discussion of the behavior of transforms on inlines in the getBoundingClientRect
thread. No-one seemed to like Gecko's implementation, but we don't have any better 
suggestions for how it should work. Until we do, I don't think there's much point expanding
on what "box" means for transform-origin and perspective-origin.

Simon