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- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:12:27 +0000
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The CSS Working Group just discussed ``[css-overflow-3] Standardize `overlay` as a synonym for `auto` ``, and agreed to the following: * `RESOLVED: overlay is legacy value alias for 'overflow: auto'` <details><summary>The full IRC log of that discussion</summary> <fantasai> scribe+<br> <fantasai> emilio: Was skeptical at first, because I thought only Safari had overlay scrollbars<br> <fantasai> emilio: but also have classic scrollbars in OS preferences<br> <fantasai> emilio: so I think aliasing to auto is better<br> <fantasai> emilio: chrome folks also wanted to do it<br> <fantasai> emilio: helpful for compat<br> <fantasai> emilio: only annoyance is it doesn't do what it says<br> <fantasai> emilio: but we already discussed that tweaking overlay vs non-overlay should be user choice, not author choice<br> <fantasai> astearns: smfr, anything to add about aliasing 'overflow: overlay' to 'overflow: auto' ?<br> <fantasai> smfr: I'm in favor. We agree that it should be user choice rather than author choice<br> <fantasai> smfr: overlay vs non-overlay escaping onto the Web was a mistake<br> <fantasai> astearns: Proposed to specify 'overflow: overlay' as alias<br> <fantasai> fantasai: legacy name alias?<br> <fantasai> emilio: Yeah, I think that would be best<br> <fantasai> https://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-5/#legacy-name-alias<br> <fantasai> s/legacy name alias/legacy value alias/<br> <fantasai> https://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-5/#value-aliasing<br> <fantasai> RESOLVED: overlay is legacy value alias for 'overflow: auto'<br> </details> -- GitHub Notification of comment by css-meeting-bot Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8063#issuecomment-1431620007 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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