- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:12:19 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 02/28/2013 02:39 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: > > We also discussed on the call having the default order depend on the 'direction' or 'writing-mode' properties. This adds > complexity but, IMO, does not help much. The stacking order of page-margin boxes only matters when they overlap, which should > only happen in rare and pathological cases anyway. When that happens accidentally, the result looks broken whatever the > stacking order is. > > > Therefore I stick to my proposal: pick an arbitrary but fixed default order, and let authors control it with z-index for > pathological cases. I don’t care what the default order is. > > I don’t feel strongly about the "fixed" part, though. If someone thinks it should really depend on direction/writing-mode I’m > fine with that. Please make a proposal in that case. I think if we make it depend on anything, it makes more sense to have it depend on whether the page is :left or :right. But that would be confusing for publications that aren't organized in spreads. ~fantasai
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