On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hm, why would it require stacking-level changes? One obvious way to >> get it to act "correctly" is to make it wrap around the element, like >> the old ::outside pseudo-element proposal. Then it's trivial. > > The CP says "The dialog and its cover, taken together, are siblings within a > new stacking context which is placed above all other stacking contexts." > This seems like something new in CSS.
Oh, whoops, indeed. Sorry about that, I forgot the CP worked like that. Yeah, I guess we *would* need some changes to the stacking algorithm. :/ Some thought needs to go into how much of this should be expressed in author-usable CSS and how much should be "magic". ~TJ
