Inclusion of overflowScrolling in coremob specification

As far as i can tell, overflowScrolling was included in the coremob spec 
and in the current rng.io test suite because of a desire from web 
developers to have some means of specifying whether or not elements that 
overflowed allowed scrolling or not. AFAICT, its only implemented on iOS 
Webkit as a way of switching from requiring two-fingers to scroll this 
content, to only requiring one. There's also some bits in there about 
kinetic panning that aren't well specified.

CSS overflow essentially already provides most of this ability and is 
supported well in at least some mobile browsers. I assume the new 
"overflowScrolling" property was only added by iOS because of some 
previous performance and compatibility problems in webkit?

Can anyone give me a good reason its included in the spec, otherwise, I 
think it should be removed.

- Wes

Received on Friday, 14 September 2012 16:34:28 UTC