Re: [cssom] Interaction of getComputedStyle.width/height and box-sizing

On 3/29/13 2:01 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Because then you can't round-trip 'width', which is *weird*.

Round-trip in the sense of assigning a used value to a specified value? 
  Apart from getComputedStyle consumers (assuming that keeps using "used 
width"), where would this ever happen.

>> Well, do we have a spec that actually defines block layout anymore?  ;)
>
> Nope!

People do realize that there are projects that are trying to actually 
implement CSS layout based on the output of this working group (as 
opposed to insider knowledge, personal communication with working group 
memebers, and reverse-engineering of existing UAs, which is how it seems 
to work for most of us so far), right?  :(

-Boris

Received on Friday, 29 March 2013 18:09:29 UTC