- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:13:10 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com>
I have read the whole document and find the way exclusions
are defined in a document a bit complex. Just looking
at exemple 1 in [1], I am almost clueless about the mechanism
used to position precisely the circle inside the content div.
It seems the exclusion element is almost relatively positioned
but I don't really understand the whole thing.
Furthermore, because positioned elements are explicitely
excluded from the algo, it's going to harm page layouts
based on positioning - and there are zillions out there.
I think I have another model in mind, probably simpler for
web authors, but it's pretty hard to explain w/o a whiteboard...
1. I think the wrap-shape and wrap-shape-image properties should
apply to all ancestors of an element but never cross position
property boundaries.
2. that way it's applicable to fixed/absolutely positioned elements
3. that way, an element CONTAINS the elements defining its exclusions
area while in the current proposal they can live outside of it
and I have the feeling web authors will choke on that because of
very complex positioning...
4. the wrap-shape-image would show the image as a background above
all existing backgrounds of the element and "clearing" what's
inside the exclusion area (modulo the wrap shape paddings)
I have no idea if that's clear or not, sorry. Vincent, if that's not
maybe we can arrange a conf call together so I can explain better ?
[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-exclusions/
</Daniel>
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