- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:43:25 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Daniel Glazman wrote: > > In my opinion, the |scrollIntoView()| method does not solve an old > problem we all hit once in a while : we need |scrollIntoView()| and > |ensureElementIsVisible()|. These are clearly different beasts. > > The former is as defined in the current spec. > > The latter takes a boolean argument. If the argument is true or is > omitted, and if the top of the element is not visible in the viewport, > then |scrollIntoView(true)| is called. If the argument is false and if > the intersection of the element's frame and the viewport is not nil, > then |scrollIntoView(false)| is called. This is an interesting proposal. Could you elaborate on the use cases? Would this be better handled by an "isVisible"-style API in a CSSOM spec? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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