Some more points: > On Mar 25, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think > _explicitWidth will mirror style.width, but again, how often are folks > setting style.width, and who is reading it? If you scanned HTML DOMs in > existing JS apps, I don't think we see it too often.
It depends. Setting hard width and height values is a very important piece of AMP.[1] It can be very useful for optimizing rendering performance — especially on mobile. > Did we rule out just > always returning HTMLElement.offsetWidth? We don’t want to do that unless we absolutely have to. Checking the offsetWidth will force a reflow if any DOM properties have been written since the last measuring. Client code needs to have a way of getting the dimensions without always forcing a reflow. > Shouldn't it be possible to > create a full DOM without ever reading width if you are completely relying > on browser layout? Yes. > If so, the Basic code should allow you to do that. Theoretically, but unless we want specialized layouts which know that every part of the app is browser-sized, I’m not sure how a layout can know what all the ancestors layouts are. Harbs [1]https://medium.com/making-internets/amping-up-the-amp-framework-f7037332eac5 <https://medium.com/making-internets/amping-up-the-amp-framework-f7037332eac5>
