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by Etheryte 560 days ago
Last time this article came up, I voiced my opinion that instead of a blog post, this should've probably been a bug report either for the browser or the CSS spec itself. Since this got posted again, I went and looked for one and boy did it not disappoint: there's an ongoing ticket that's now been open for eight years [0]. Granted, that ticket and the related spec cover much more than just this behavior, but the underlying issue is the same. If you look through related tickets on e.g. Chromium, you'll see plenty that are closed as won't fix exactly because of this, the spec itself doesn't account for all the use cases.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/fxtf-drafts/issues/53