3.11 A page's overall vertical scrollbar (WAS: RE: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML")

Hi, I wish there could be something in css.
> 3.11 A page's overall vertical scrollbar should be on the "end" side relative to the user agent
> chrome direction
> Bug 10825 filed on HTML5.
> Proposes specifying that the user agent window's overall vertical scrollbar should be located
> independent of the direction of any page element, despite being otherwise controlled by the
> style of thebody element.
> Rejected as out-of-scope: “The HTML spec doesn't even require that there be a window in the
> first place, let alone a scroll bar. Plus, user interface decisions are explicitly left up to
> user agents since they represent quality-of-implementation issues and not interoperability
> issues.”
> Close the bug?
> It appears likely that a proposal to add this to the CSS spec would also be rejected, since “CSS> explicitly mentions only 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.”

ME: However, but I am not the one to decide this, I can see the vertical scrollbar's alignment as a possible future css value for the overflow attribute -- overflow: scrollleft ; overflow: scrollright (or this would have to be verticaloverflow maybe? Of course scrollleft and scrollright would only apply to vertical overflow obviously so no need to specify vertical).  Is this out of scope?
 
Best,
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com 


> From: aharon@google.com
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:30:30 -0800
> To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
> Subject: Implementation status of "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML"
>
> Here is an implementation status
> document summarizing
> the status of each proposal. I will continue to update it as the status
> continues to change.
>
> If some part of the status is not to your liking, you are most welcome
> to contribute to the discussion on the various bugs and threads linked
> by the document while it is still possible to change things. Or, if you
> can try to get a consensus here on public-i18n-bidi first.
>
> Regards,
> Aharon

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