Re: [css3-regions] regions forming stacking contexts

On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:19 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:41 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:00 PM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> and in fact CSS/HTML does not allow the same document to be rendered into
>>>>> multiple <iframe>s at the same time.
>>>> 
>>>> Huh. I did not know that. It seems like an odd restriction. I can have the
>>>> same document in multiple windows.
>>> 
>>> Different uses of the word "same".  You're talking about an
>>> independent copy of the document.  Robert is talking about literally
>>> the same document.
>> 
>> I don't understand. The only way the same document could be "rendered into multiple <iframe>s at the same time" is by having two iframes with the identical 'src' attributes. How is that worse that two windows with the identical URLs? And how is the meaning of "same" different in those two situations?
> 
> Again, you are talking about identical copies.  Robert is talking
> about literally the same document appearing in two iframes.  He's
> correct that that is not possible, though I'm pretty sure he just
> misunderstood you.

OK, I guess his comment can be taken to mean that there is currently no way for an iframe to be divided into two pieces (outside of IE region experiments) with partial documents in each iframe. But that seems pretty obvious, and obviously not what I was talking about. A document is always a copy, of some patterns of ones and zeros on a hard drive somewhere else. It is identified by its URL, and that _can_ be in two different iframes at the same time, each with its own "rendering" of the document at different widths and scrolled (by the user, for instance) to different positions.

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