Re: [css3-regions] offsetParent for element collected inside a named flow

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

Received on Monday, 25 March 2013 17:54:21 UTC