- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:12:14 +1100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 1/04/2011 7:14 AM, fantasai wrote: > On 03/31/2011 12:23 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] >>> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:03 PM >>> In many cases using the term 'element', e.g. "block container element" >>> doesn't work because we also have to consider anonymous boxes, which >>> split >>> into multiple boxes, but are still all part of one box. >> >> Maybe it's OK for both kinds of boxes to just be boxes? They have the >> same >> nature. If "war and peace" is split into two volumes, each volume is a >> book >> and "war and peace" is a book, too, isn't it? > > Yes, but when we need to, we can distinguish "book" and "volume". > > So I guess the question is, > > book:volume > box:? > > ~fantasai Can we have have an 'anonymous box tree' within the 'box tree'. An 'element', e.g. "block container element" is a box in the 'box tree' where an 'anonymous box' is a box within the 'anonymous box tree'. -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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