- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:54:28 -0800
- To: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, www-style@w3.org
On 09/07/2010 08:14 PM, Peter Moulder wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:31:44PM -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 9/7/10 5:28 PM, Peter Moulder wrote: >> >>> Gecko doesn't display marker box for root list-item; I haven't yet >>> determined whether this is a display issue or it's being forced to be >>> display:block. >> >> The latter. This seems to be what >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/visuren.html#display-prop >> (and earlier drafts) called for. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/visuren.html#display-prop >> is the first draft with the current verbiage, which treats the root >> the same way positioned and floated boxes are treated.... >> >> I'll get a bug filed on this. > > OOC, why was this changed? Not being familiar with the weird and wonderful > ways in which authors use CSS, I'd have thought it not a particularly important > use case in CSS2.1, and I wouldn't mind if the spec marked it as undefined > whether root list-item becomes block or stays list-item. > > One reason that root list-item displeases me is that it means that the box tree > isn't actually a tree at all, but a forest. Not a huge deal, but it > nevertheless seems like more cost than the uses I can see for root list-items > (beyond what can be achieved with :before and/or a non-root list-item). Filed as Issue 231 http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-231 ~fantasai
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