I think the point was that the inline style needed to be removed in certain cases.
> On Jun 6, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Yishay Weiss <yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, but why does that get in the way of ‘flex’ and other display/layout > styles? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> > Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:53:51 PM > To: dev@royale.apache.org > Subject: Re: [royale-asjs] branch develop updated: Fixes #258. But is that a > proper fix? > > If you look at the DOM generated back then, every tag had > "style="position:relative" on it. > > -Alex > > On 6/4/18, 11:53 PM, "yishayw" <yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Alex Harui-2 wrote >> UIBase used to set position=relative on all positioners. We took that >> away so that the "flex" and other display/layout styles would not have to >> deal with the excess clutter and overhead of having set position on so >> many elements in the DOM. > > Can you give an example of excess clutter caused by this? > > > > > -- > Sent from: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7Cfe016d3a8a054079c23908d5cab1005c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636637783920590036&sdata=mEUKysH2%2FsT4PtSe4ntWlFSZoz3B35zTEs3cJN288yE%3D&reserved=0 > >
