- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:26:07 -0700
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> But yeah, your choice seems reasonable here. Having border-box return >> something other than the box that the border surrounds would be >> super-confusing and bad. Having margin-box return something other >> than the extent of the margins would be super-confusing and bad. >> Having the two differ by more than just the size of the margins is >> also confusing and bad, but less so I think - it makes the feature >> less consistent between results, but keeps each individual call >> consistent. > > > OK good. > > One thing we could do to help is introduce additional box types > "margin-inside" and "border-inside" to let authors cope with tables (where > there is content between the border-box and the inside of the margins) and > scrolled elements (where there is content between the padding-box and the > inside of the borders). This could be done as a later extension if we find > it's needed. Yeah, makes sense as a later addition. Should probably be recorded as a note in whatever spec this is going in. ~TJ
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