Regardless of jQuery support or not, I am the only one who thinks
positioning the body is kind of weird? what's between the body and the
viewport limits, limbo?

On Apr 9, 5:30 pm, Fernando Ferreira
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Take a look at the test case I posted onhttp://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4438, 
> it outlines the crux of the
> problem.
>
> If it was only a local problem I would certainly fix it locally, but this
> assumption of the origin point of the body being the same as the origin of
> the viewport leads to several problems with anything that is positioned
> relatively to the body (using position: absolute in the childrens on a body
> that itself has postion: relative), and it happens in lots of places on
> jquery ui, for instance.
>
> I will try to craft a test case for something that happens on jquery itself,
> instead of only jquery ui.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Matt Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 9, 1:42 pm, Brandon Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Unfortunately it just isn't as simple as that. A positioned body element
> > > directly affects how the browser calculates the offsetTop/Left properties
> > of
> > > child elements.
>
> > In what cases? Just curious.
>
> > I suppose it depends on the browser and the exact layout/objects in
> > question, but I've used this solution several times and it's been
> > sufficient for me. It may be enough for the OP.
>
> > Matt Kruse
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