Re: PATCH: Bug 186

> It's just a conceptual thing. Boxes should stay where the programmer 
> left them. If that is followed 100%, it becomes a very useful rule that 
> developers can simply rely on. Redirect and child wrappers are a 
> transparent way of moving boxes without breaking the model. Or else, 
> there really wouldn't be a point for such things to exist.
> 
> These little things are what all other graphics libraries seem to get 
> wrong in my opinion. Every now and again, some basic design principle a 
> library depends on changes, just for this instance (cough JTable).

Whilst I do agree it's a conceptual thing, the idea is to make it *crystal
clear* in the documentation that the *special property* scroll_pane tag will
affect box order.
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