Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-align] fully specify the "Overflow and Scroll Positions" section

I think the first paragraph of the new text is mostly reasonable.

However, it contains the text:

> initially-visible content of the scroll container is the same as it would be if it were not a scroll container

which seems problematic since scrollbars can remove some of the available space for the content, which means that the initially-visible content actually *can't* be the same in some cases.  I think, for example, that if you're doing

```css
align-content: end;
justify-content: end;
overflow: scroll;
```

then you want the scroll-position all the way at the end, not one scrollbar width short of all the way to the end as the spec currently (maybe) defines (at least if you assume that you want the *position* of the content to match where it would be if it were not a scroll container).

I suspect this means you should define things in terms of alignments -- particularly for center.

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I don't think I actually understand what the second normative paragraph is trying to say.

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