[webkit-dev] Debugging mid-page relayout issues

[David Hyatt]

document.body.offsetTop.

dave

On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>
> On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Mitz Pettel wrote:
>
>
>> I have encountered a bug that occurs on a certain page only  
>> sometimes and only when it's loaded via HTTP (i.e. not when opened  
>> as a webarchive). It looks like the bug occurs only when  
>> relayouting occurs when the HTML is not fully loaded (or perhaps  
>> when images are loaded after the page HTML has been loaded). I'm  
>> afraid I don't know much more than that about the exact conditions.
>>
>> Do you know of any techniques that will allow me to reproduce  
>> those conditions without relying on that specific page and on the  
>> server it's coming from?
>>
>
> If you insert the following in the middle of a document, it will  
> force a layout at that exact point:
>
> <script>
> document.offsetTop;
> </script>
>
> This gets a property that requires a layout, and therefore always  
> will cause a layout at that point in parsing a document.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
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