Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-selectors] Add a :scrolling-element selector (#5000)

Seems to me this could cause a cycle in quirks mode:

```css
html, body:scrolling-element { overflow: auto }
body { overflow: visible }
```

If `body` is the `:scrolling-element`, then it gets `overflow: auto`. But then it becomes [potentially scrollable](https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#potentially-scrollable), so it stops being the [scrollingElement](https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-document-scrollingelement).

So then it stops matching `:scrolling-element`, and gets `overflow: visible` instead. But then it stops being potentially scrollable, so it becomes the scrollingElement again!

Maybe `:scrolling-element` could only work in non-quirks mode, but then it basically becomes `:root:not(:quirks-mode)`. What's the use-case for that?

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