Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values] Should viewport units still depend on scrollbar width for overflow:scroll?

I don't think your (1) is quite correct, because testing whether your current calculation is correct is more complex than for `em` units, and the effect is global rather than local.  (The effect with `em` units can be a wide effect when `font-size` inherits, but everywhere it happens it's a local effect.)

I also tend to think adding viewport units themselves were a mistake -- something that we thought was simple, but really should have been addressed by layout systems rather than units, and now turn out to be not as simple as we thought.

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