Closed lukewarlow closed 1 month ago
The original Microsoft explainer is very old and has a lot of out-of-date details.
Here's a new explainer: https://xiaochengh.github.io/Explainers/css-anchor-position/explainer.html
@emilio @dholbert
We're positive
on anchor positioning; it seems to be an elegant evolution of absolute positioning, with an assortment of nice use-cases.
I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838746 as a placeholder metabug to track implementation.
Intent to Prototype e-mail: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/4cbytMKbHtg
What's the ETA on this feature? Asking for a friend.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1838746 is the right place to track implementation status.
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/CSSAnchoredPositioning/explainer.md (probably slightly outdated but should give a general overview)https://xiaochengh.github.io/Explainers/css-anchor-position/explainer.html
Other Information
This new CSS functionality will allow web developers to position elements anchored to another element with built in fallback positioning. This will go hand in hand with the Popover API which Mozilla is positive on