Feature: add option to use relative positioning instead of transform.

[miklschmidt]

In some cases it's desirable to use position instead of transform. For example, i have a list with items which contain popups that are position: fixed. Transform creates a new stacking context and clips the fixed child element to the dimensions of the container.

From MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transform):

If the property has a value different than none, a stacking context will be created. In that case the object will act as a containing block for position: fixed elements that it contains.

[NeXTs]

Another reason why I'd like to avoid transforms
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/gpu-animation-doing-it-right/

In my case Chrome allocates 38MB memory for layer with list (even if it's empty, because it counts amount of pixels rather than payload)

[Benj1er]

Hello,

Is there a reason why this option was never done or merged?
It will be very useful when we don't want to have a stacking context for the list.

It would be great to have an answer, thank you in advance.