[css2] Put the improved version in again, with further corrections by Anton Prowse:

bert-github · bert-github · commit 77c0905f190c · 2011-03-04T20:18:22.000Z
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Feb/0409.html --HG-- extra : convert_revision : svn%3A73dc7c4b-06e6-40f3-b4f7-9ed1dbc14bfc/trunk%403137
diff --git a/css2/visuren.src b/css2/visuren.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.179 2011-03-04 19:27:23 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.180 2011-03-04 20:18:22 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <title>Visual formatting model</title>
 <meta name="editor" lang="tr" content="Tantek &Ccedil;elik">
@@ -2017,7 +2017,7 @@ class="propinst-z-index">'z-index'</span> property specifies:
   <dt><strong>auto</strong>
 
   <dd>The stack level of the generated box in the current stacking
-  context is '0'. The box does not establish a new stacking context
+  context is 0. The box does not establish a new stacking context
   unless it is the root element.
 </dl>
 
@@ -2061,49 +2061,41 @@ href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparency">opacity</a>'
 </p>
 
 <p>Within each stacking context, the following layers are painted in
-back-to-front order.
+back-to-front order:
 
 <ol>
   <li>the background and borders of the element forming the stacking
   context.
 
-  <li>the stacking contexts of descendants <!-- or: the child stacking
-  contexts --> with negative stack levels (most negative first).
+  <li>the child stacking contexts with negative stack levels (most
+  negative first).
 
   <li>the in-flow, non-inline-level, non-positioned descendants.
 
-  <li><!-- the --> non-positioned floats.
+  <li>the non-positioned floats.
 
-  <li><!-- the --> in-flow, inline-level, non-positioned descendants, including
+  <li>the in-flow, inline-level, non-positioned descendants, including
   inline tables and inline blocks.
 
-  <li>positioned descendants and stacking contexts with stack level
-  '0'.  <!-- or: the child stacking contexts with stack level 0, and
-  the positioned descendants with 'z-index: auto'. -->
+  <li>the child stacking contexts with stack level 0 and the
+  positioned descendants with stack level 0.
 
-  <li>the stacking contexts of descendants <!-- or: the child stacking
-  contexts --> with positive stack levels (least positive first).
+  <li>the child stacking contexts with positive stack levels (least
+  positive first).
 </ol>
 
+<p>Within each stacking context, positioned elements with stack level
+0 (in layer&nbsp;6), non-positioned floats (layer&nbsp;4), inline
+blocks (layer&nbsp;5), and inline tables (layer&nbsp;5), are painted
+as if those elements themselves generated new stacking contexts,
+except that their positioned descendants and any would-be child
+stacking contexts take part in the current stacking context.
+
 <p>This painting order is applied recursively to each stacking
 context. This description of stacking context painting order
 constitutes an overview of the detailed normative definition in
 <a href="zindex.html">Appendix&nbsp;E.</a>
 
-<p>The contents of positioned elements with 'z-index: auto',
-non-positioned floats, inline blocks and inline tables are stacked as
-if they generated new stacking contexts, except that any positioned
-elements and any elements that actually create new stacking contexts
-take part in the parent stacking context.
-<!-- or:
-Positioned elements with 'z-index: auto' (in layer&nbsp;6), floats
-(layer&nbsp;4), inline blocks (layer&nbsp;5), and inline tables
-(layer&nbsp;5), are painted as if those elements generated new
-stacking contexts, except that their positioned descendants and any
-child stacking contexts take part in the current stacking context.
--->
-
-
 <div class="html-example">
 <p>In the following example, the stack levels of
 the boxes (named with their "id" attributes) are:
