Re: [CSS 2.1] [Section 9.5.1] Vertical positioning of floating boxes

Gérard Talbot wrote:
> Dear fellow www-style colleagues,
> 
> I need a second opinion and I am open to criticisms.
> 
> Regarding this testcase:
> 
> http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/c414-flt-ln-002-draft.htm
> 
> 1- Is this testcase correct? Am I missing something (except maybe the
> somewhat tortuous wording of the expected results)? Is there something
> wrong in such testcase?


This testcase is correct.


> 2- Shouldn't that margin box of that big triple-A-letters
> left-floating-box be placed at top-left corner of its enclosing <div> *in
> the first line box*?


The float is sitting at the top-left corner of its enclosing <div> 
padding edge. Your testcase is correct.


> 3- When text-selecting/highlighting a chunk of text (by dragging the
> mouse), we are in fact hightlighting what exactly? I think we are
> highlighting the content area; I think we are not highlighting the line
> box. Am I wrong?


You are highlighting line boxes. Sort of like when you hover line 
boxes and the mouse pointer changes from a cursor to a text (indicates 
text that may be selected. Often rendered as an I-beam.).


[snip]
> Regarding this testcase:
> 
> http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/section9.5.1-vertical-positioning-float.html
> 
> 1- The bright green square is right after the 3rd word (in the source
> code) in those 2 examples while the width of the paragraph is large, wide
> enough to still render the first 5 words of the paragraphs for the first
> line box. I did that on purpose so that the text versus bright green box
> would not be in a too tight horizontal space.
> 
> Opera 10.62 under Windows XP displays the bright green square's margin box
> starting on the 2nd line box, not on the first line box, in the second
> example. The 2 examples in that testcase should be rendered identically,
> pixel per pixel, according to section 9.5.1.
> Am I missing something here? Can you explain this?


They should be identical. They render the same in both FF 3.6.9 and 
Opera 10.62 in Windows 7.

BTW, the green square's margin box starts at the top it's containing 
block. This is also where the top of the paragraph is and also where 
the top of the *first line* of *line boxes* are positioned after 
margin collapse between <p> and <body>.


> 2- Opera 10.62 under Windows XP and Opera 10.62 under Linux render that
> same testcase differently. Do you see such difference too? What I mean
> here is that "A floating box must be placed as high as possible" according
> to CSS 2.1 and that left-floating bright green square is not as high as it
> can be in the second example of the testcase in Opera 10.62 under Windows
> XP.


Opera 10.62 under Linux must be doing something wrong. It may help in 
this test to give a background-color to the paragraph.


[snip]
> I can provide screenshots if requested..
> 
> regards, Gérard


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Received on Monday, 13 September 2010 07:01:37 UTC