On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > Why wouldn't this be a CSS issue? That's the layer of the Web platform > where we put presentationa-specific things.
You can't detect the size of something from within CSS, because then you can change the size. > But in this particular case, why do we need authors to explicitly say > anything about the direction? Why can't you just be vertical if you're > tall, and horizontal if you're wide? I don't understand why anyone would > ever want a tall horizontal slider. Because of the reason I gave above. > If you're making proprietary pseudo-elements for parts of the slider while > waiting for Web Components to be ready to do this, just have different > pseudos for the two orientations. This won't work for the same reason. ~TJ
