RE: Attempt at summary of run-in

On Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:48 PM Bert Bos wrote:
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> 
> Boris Zbarsky raised an issue about the exact rendering of 'display:
> run-in'. That issue has several aspects:
> 
> 4) I said above that 10.1 defines a behavior, but Boris thinks it is
> actually ambiguous. It uses the phrase "ancestor box," which I take to
> mean the "ancestor's box" but Boris thinks it can mean the box that is
> an ancestor in the "formatting structure." (Chapter 2 says that the
> structure of the "formatting structure" is not defined and that it need
> not be a tree, but if you believe that it *is* a tree, you can easily
> read "parent box" and "ancestor box" as being distinct from "parent's
> box" and "ancestor's box.")
> 
> STATUS: It's not yet clear how serious this ambiguity is. There are no
> proposals for removing it.
> 
> SUGGESTED ACTION: Decide if we want to review the occurrences
> of "ancestor box" and similar terms and suggest rewrites.
> 

Thank you for your feedback. The CSSWG resolved not to make these changes to the CSS 2.1 specification[1]. We will be reevaluating this issue for errata and future versions of CSS. 

Please respond before 18 March, 2011 if you do not accept the current resolution.

[1] http://w3.org/TR/CSS

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 18:35:59 UTC