Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Bruno Fassino wrote: > >> Yes, with positive margins there is more consistency amongst modern browsers. >> The only anomaly that I see, with positive margin on the same side of >> the float, is that Safa

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Bruno Fassino wrote: > Yes, with positive margins there is more consistency amongst modern browsers. > The only anomaly that I see, with positive margin on the same side of > the float, is that Safari 4 makes the b.f.c. box narrower than > necessary, so there is a ga

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Bruno Fassino wrote: >> Moreover, the spec now says: >> "the _border box_ of a table, block-level replaced element, or element >> in the normal flow that establishes a new block formatting context >> mus

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Ingo Chao
2010/3/22 Bruno Fassino : ... > The spec deliberately not very precise about these cases. At >  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#bfc-next-to-float > there is > "CSS2 does not define when a UA may put said element next to the float > or by how much said element may become narrower" > > So the

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Bruno Fassino wrote: The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. I've recently noticed a s

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> I see indeed that Firefox ignores a negative margin on the same side > of the float as well. > > > The spec deliberately not very precise about these cases. At > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#bfc-next-to-float > there is > "CSS2 does not define when a UA may put said element next to

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > Hi Bruno, >> >> I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, >> occurring with boxes having overflow different from visible. Assume >> there is a right float and then an overflow box with a negative left >> margin.

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
Hi Alan and Thierry, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float >> > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers >> > usually display them beside the float, making them narrow

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, > > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, > >

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Bruno, > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, > occurring

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Alan Gresley
Bruno Fassino wrote: > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, >

[css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, occurring with boxes having overf