Matt Garrett

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Dec 24
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» Infamous IE hasLayout is toast

We are slowly finding more and more out about how nice IE8 is going to play. Markus Mielke
came out to tell us that hasLayout is a goner:

I do not think I am disclosing too much by saying that HasLayout will be history with IE8 (it was an internal data-structure to begin with and should have never been exposed). See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250481.aspx for more details.

So what does “having a Layout” mean?

  • In short, having a layout means that an element is…