On Friday 2003-09-12 10:48 -0400, Bob Clary wrote:
> CSS 2.1 says <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#propdef-overflow>

> <quote>
> HTML UAs may apply the overflow property from the BODY or HTML elements 
> to the viewport.
> </quote>
> 
> Seems to me that we don't apply the overflow from the BODY to the 
> viewport. I've seen several other evangelism bugs on this type of 
> behavior, but can't say why we don't.

This sentence is new to CSS 2.1 (which is still in working draft), and
was inserted to make an existing bug in IE/Windows and other browsers
acceptable (although not preferred) behavior according to CSS.

-David

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