- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:53:40 -0700
- To: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>, Andrei Bucur <abucur@adobe.com>
- CC: Mihnea-Vlad Ovidenie <mihnea@adobe.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 3/25/13 9:42 AM, "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: >On 3/25/13, Andrei Bucur <abucur@adobe.com> wrote: >> With regions, this is more complicated because an element gets to >>occupy a >> certain space inside the viewport because of both the flow layout and >>region >> layout. I can imagine there are situations when developers want to >>access >> the offsetParent relative to the flow in some contexts and the visual >> offsetParent relative to the regions in other contexts. >> >Nobody who knows what they are doing would want to use offsetParent. >The problems with this festering property have continued because it >was specified normatively. So your recommendation would be not to make any changes to these attributes, because they aren't reliable anyway? Thanks, Alan
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