Re: Width: the trouble of a fixed width div and a relative width from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-04-20 (www-style@w3.org from April 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:18:41 -0700
To: Rik Schaaf <coolcat_the_best@hotmail.com>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDA=6C3foB8-g5neSp=Hi5EotXK8Lc_L8_1iwoqtf7wmvw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Rik Schaaf
<coolcat_the_best@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How about newer browsers? Do they design them now so new standards or home made extentions are easily "faked"?

New layout modes are *intrinsically* difficult to fake, unfortunately.
 To make it easier, browsers would have to offer JS hooks into their
layout code, which is all kinds of troublesome.

~TJ

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