Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] CSS Overflow: scrollbar-gutter (#520)

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Regarding @alice's question about `stable` not being the default, my personal assumption is that doing so would break existing layouts so it is safer if `scrollbar-gutter` is an opt-in property.

As the discussion and implementation get started, a couple issues have come up:

- `scrollbar-gutter` is an inherited property, which might have unintended consequences for layouts. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5231
- some layouts are not possible with the current spec. For example, having headers and dividers that span the whole width of a list. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5232

In that last issue there is a mention about having _"an `env()` way of accessing the computed scrollbar size for solving these cases"_ which links with @atanassov's mention of getting more information and events about the scrollbar.

I see `scrollbar-gutter` as a first step for solving the most common use cases, keeping in mind that eventually there might be a need for more elaborated solutions in some scenarios.

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