- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:03:21 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tuesday 2011-06-14 13:58 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > I much prefer 'display' rather than 'position' (though we > > really never should have had 'position' in the first place). > > I boggled when I heard this at the FtF. ^_^ position:absolute is too > weak in CSS2.1, and thus of limited utility, but positioning in > general is a good thing that is useful. It's just an alternate layout > model that can operate simultaneously with other layout models. Ignoring the merits of absolute positioning, I think it should have been display:absolute rather than position:absolute. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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