At 21:27 +0900 10/17/12, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
E {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
/* .. more .. */
}
Afaict, those are all applied to inline elements, no width is
specified. On the face of it, that code is completely non-sensical
(float will make the element display: block anyway - CSS 2.1:9.7
[1]).
The question: does anyone recognizes this as some kind of hack for
whatever browser ? I wouldn't know what the benefit is, though.
I have a vague memory that maybe this was a way to ensure you
triggered hasLayout in some versions of IE. As you point out, the
specification says that floating forces a change of display role, but
I'm pretty sure not every browser properly did so in the early days.
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