[whatwg] dialog's position property

2012-07-20 Thread Matt Falkenhagen
Hello, I'm trying to implement the positioning of dialog in WebKit and am looking at the UA style sheet for dialog [1]. Is there a reason position:absolute is used instead of fixed? According to the spec, a non-anchored dialog is vertically centered in the viewport by default. It seems this can

Re: [whatwg] Administrivia: Update on the relationship between the WHATWG HTML living standard and the W3C HTML5 specification

2012-07-20 Thread Steve Faulkner
Hi Hixie, I believe you have made some spurious claims, one of them being; The WHATWG effort is focused on developing the canonical description of HTML and related technologies The claim that HTML the living standard is canonical appears to imply that the requirements and advice contained

Re: [whatwg] dialog's position property

2012-07-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Matt Falkenhagen wrote: I'm trying to implement the positioning of dialog in WebKit and am looking at the UA style sheet for dialog [1]. Is there a reason position:absolute is used instead of fixed? If it was fixed, and the dialog was taller than the window, there