"Chris Hoess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <3b5893fb$0$32924$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Roland M�sl wrote:
> > "Ian Hickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> ><> Show me the standard where is written
> ><>
> ><> "When overflow:auto, show a blank screen"
> >
> ><As David Baron has explained on the bug, this only happens because the
> ><element is empty of in-flow children, since all the children are
> ><absolutely positioned. I'm not exactly sure what you were trying to do
> ><with the 'overflow:auto' but whatever it was, the way you are doing it
is
> ><wrong. Mozilla is laying this out correctly as far as I can tell.
> >
> > You try only to discuss away the bug
> > by numerouse word plays.
>
> Let me point out, before we go further, that both Mr. Hickson and Mr.
> Baron are Invited Experts on the W3C CSS Working Group: that is, they are
> part of the team *designing the CSS3 standard* because *they have
> demonstrated an excellent command of CSS1 and CSS2*. This rather weakens
> your claim to understand the spec better than they do.
>
> So far as I can tell, the state of standards with regard to laying out
> your page is roughly thus:
>
> IE: not compliant. As explained above and in the bug, IE doesn't realize
> that <html> and not <body> is the root node of the page, and doesn't apply
> overflow:auto to it correctly. Admittedly, this is somewhat
> understandable, as ignoring <head> for rendering purposes would have been
> a reasonable shortcut before CSS2, but it's rather disturbing to see that
> this bug has persisted.
>
> Mozilla: better, but still buggy. Mozilla tries to correctly implement
> the CSS spec: because the only contents of the <body> element are
> absolutely positioned, they *do not count* in deciding how large to make
> <body> (see various quotations from the spec), so <body> should have
> a height of 0. However, for some reason, some information from the
> non-overflowed layout is leaking through, so that the links and cursors
> are still changing. This is indeed a bug; that should not appear.
The <BODY> has the default size of the current used screen.
Also, when there is a absolut positioned <DIV> with overflow:auto
and the overflow occures, Mozilla displays this box even with
<BODY style="overflow:auto">
So there are much more strange problems than You think for the first
--
Roland M�sl
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