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

Wait, what do you mean WebKit has ripped the bandaid off?  There has been an open bug there for 9 years ([this](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106133) and previously [this](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9248)) which they've tried and failed to fix (for similar reasons as us).  If they successfully changed then I have no doubt we could too.  But instead the opposite is happening - IE has switched to using 'WebKit' in their user agent and due to compat issues felt they had to also copy this bug.

Shipping scrollingElement will alleviate the need for an awkward polyfill - sites are free to fall back on the simple UA check they're already doing today when scrollingElement isn't defined.  scrollingElement gives us a simple drop-in upgrade path for such sites.

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