Re: [spec-reviews] CSSOM View document.scrollingElement (#51)

The bug was inherited from Webkit, who has since ripped the bandaid off.

If the future is that scrollingElement is just another stop gap, and already has a polyfill, we point the libs to the polyfill until they can wrap their heads around just always using document.documentElement.

jQuery has worked around this in UI for a while. In fact, we're eagerly awaiting the bandaid to be ripped off simply so we can remove our workarounds.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the UA sniffs and the polyfills are all because Blink hasn't bit the bullet yet.

Shipping scrollingElement won't alleviate need for polyfill of old blink, so nothing is gained by introduction of the new API? 

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