RE: Positioned Layout proposal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Tab Atkins Jr.
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:32 PM
> 
> To fix this, I've written a personal draft of a new Positioned Layout spec
> I'd like to see adopted by the group.  It's currently hosted on my blog:
> <http://www.xanthir.com/blog/b48H0>.

It is certainly interesting. Need to look closer to understand the implications...

Some questions:

1) I wonder if the most important use cases (yes, we need more use cases) can be solved by just specifying a positioning parent?

2) It appears easy when it only applies to absolute positioning (although implementation will not be that easy - it will complicate calculating visual bounds, incremental update, pagination and more...). But will it be enough? If such a major concept is added to layout model, wouldn't it be expected to extend to in-flow content (which of course would be much harder, adding circular size dependencies)?

Alex

Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 20:23:45 UTC