Re: box-sizing: Invalid Statements in Documentation

You should feel free to make appropriate edits to the documentation;  
we encourage anyone to do so.

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On Mar 20, 2010, at 11:12 AM, "Axel Dahmen"  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> At https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Box-sizing it says:
>
> "It is possible to use this property to emulate the behavior of  
> browsers that do not correctly support the CSS box model  
> specification."
>
> This is quite a pejorative statement and it should be corrected.
>
> Actually, inventing content-width as the determinate value for the  
> width property was a bad change in mind of the W3C. In fact, it was  
> the border-box layout that determined the calculation of the width  
> property right from the beginning in CSS1. CSS3 now just corrects a  
> CSS2 design flaw.
>
> Many designers will welcome the return of the border-box layout. Now  
> finally it is possible again to assign both, a padding, a border AND  
> a width of 100% to correctly display full width backgrounds without  
> a need to perform try & error kind of width calculations.
>
> Axel Dahmen
> www.axeldahmen.de
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