Re: box-sizing: Invalid Statements in Documentation

On Saturday 2010-03-20 16:12 +0100, Axel Dahmen 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.

That's not true.  CSS1 and CSS2 are consistent in 'width' being
content-box.

It's just that many of the early implementations of CSS behaved
differently from what CSS1 said.

-David

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