Re: [Bug 10825] i18n comment 21 : location of user agent window's overall vertical scrollbar from fantasai on 2010-10-08 (public-i18n-bidi@w3.org from October to December 2010)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:38:26 -0700
To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
CC: Amit Aronovitch <aronovitch@gmail.com>, public-i18n-bidi@w3.org, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <4CAF4902.3060906@inkedblade.net>

On 10/07/2010 05:10 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
> Why would it be out of scope for CSS? CSS explicitly mentions scrollbars
> (overflow:scroll, for one). Why shouldn't its spec explicitly include
> the expected location of those scrollbars?

CSS explicitly mentions a *scrolling mechanism* and considers out-of-scope
how that mechanism is implemented. It could be scroll bars, or a little
panner map in the corner, arrow buttons along each edge of the box, or a
joystick control with no on-screen representation, or something else.

~fantasai

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