Re: http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/base.css

* Jacob Kjome wrote at www-validator-css@w3.org:
>I'm wondering why the base stylesheet used for the css validator site uses 
>background-attachment: fixed;?
>
>The relevant css is here:
>
>body {
>   background: white;
>   background-position: top left;
>   background-attachment: fixed;
>   background-repeat: no-repeat;
>}
>
>All this ends up doing is slow down useragents when scrolling the page.
>
>you could get rid of the following:
>
>   background-position: top left;
>   background-attachment: fixed;
>   background-repeat: no-repeat;
>
>and leave in:
>
>   background: white;
>
>This would provide exactly the same effect and would have the advantage of 
>not slowing down scrolling so drastically (currently looking at the 
>scrolling behavior in Mozilla latest nightly).  The only reason to use 
>fixed backgrounds are for keeping nify looking background images in one 
>spot and scrolling the text over the top of the fixed image.  In this case, 
>its just plain white so, why bother?

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