Re: [css3-images] Impl feedback requested - detached elements in element()

Are CSS pixel ratio issues taken into account here? As with CSS Canvas (per Webkit) it seems to me they'd inherit from unitless values based on the referenced element.



On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On 4/28/11 9:20 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Hixie was recently tweaking the HTML side of this (you need a
>> mechanism to refer to the detached elements, since Selectors can't
>> target them), and was curious why I excluded other replaced elements
>> like<iframe>.  I don't have a very good answer to this question, so I
>> wanted to see what reasoning there was in Gecko to not allow other
>> detached replaced elements to be used.
> 
> In Gecko, detached iframe's can't be rendered at all.  The data structures that compute style data and create a box tree are only allowed to exist when the iframe itself has a box.
> 
>> (The best I've got so far is that all the data necessary to display
>> img/video/canvas is present automatically, as part of the elements'
>> natures, so it's easy to present that data via element() even if the
>> element's not in the DOM.
> 
> Precisely.
> 
>> However, an<iframe>  needs to actually do
>> layout on its contents to be displayed; this *can* be done without a
>> surrounding document.
> 
> In Gecko at the moment it cannot.
> 
> -Boris
>

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