On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> If it's not, then descendants of the element can paint/affect layout >> of stuff outside of the element. > > Yes, but why is that important in this case? > > Is the idea here that descendants of an overflow:clip element that's outside > the viewport don't even need to have style resolved on them? So we > anticipate authors creating a lot of elements that are overflow:clip and > positioning them over a large area? Precisely. (Authors already create self-contained elements positioned over long documents; being assured of the possibility of optimizing these would be nice.) ~TJReceived on Wednesday, 2 October 2013 20:37:21 UTC
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