- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:15:54 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 9/8/11 11:03 AM, John J Barton wrote: > A list of JS calls that for-sure cause layout and a list that > for-sure-do-not would be a good start. Is that possible? roc gave you a list of JS calls that for-sure cause layout: everything in the CSSOM API. That's not an exhaustive list, but it's most of the ones that cause layout. Certainly all the commonly-used ones.... In general, the above information will depend on the UA, by the way. Furthermore, "layout" is not atomic, and a call may trigger parts of it but not others (e.g. in Gecko some calls will trigger restyle processing but not actual layout... except restyle processing needs to trigger layout on ancestor documents due to media queries, of course). If you just want a quick-n-dirty approximation, you could write a script that tests all DOM calls you care about and then instrument (or ask someone to instrument) one of the layout engines to, say, fire a sync event on layout attempts. Then see what DOM calls trigger the event. Doing that in a test environment where we don't have to worry about malicious code running off the event is a lot simpler than doing it on the web... -Boris
Received on Thursday, 8 September 2011 15:16:36 UTC