Re: Resizability

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:02:11 -0700, "Tantek Celik"
(tantek@cs.stanford.edu) wrote:
> >From: Garth Wallace <gwalla@sfgate.com>
> >Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999, 11:10 AM
> >
> > So, how would this work? Would each element resize individually,
> 
> Yes.  But obviously resizing an element affects the flow and layout of all
> elements following it.  So resizing on element could easily have the effect
> of resizing following elements.

Not if it's absolutely positioned, though.  Since absolute/fixed
positioning is the only (?) way to simplate frames, this poses a
problem.

Perhaps what is needed is some rule that if there are two resizable
edges at the same ___location, they 'merge' and are moved together.  Of
course, that requires defining 'same ___location.' It would also be nice
to be able to move one side and not the other, so the resizable edges
look like (for example, to simulate [1]):

   |
   |
---|
   |
   |

I'm not sure if this is in the proposal you mention.  I'll probably
have more to say when it's public.

David

[1] http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/sat/frames.html.en

L. David Baron     Rising Sophomore, Harvard     dbaron@fas.harvard.edu
Links, SatPix, CSS, etc.        < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
Summer Intern, Netscape - however, opinions are entirely my own, etc.

Received on Wednesday, 28 July 1999 15:24:21 UTC