- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:00:31 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Friday, April 11, 2003, 8:14:50 PM, Ian wrote:
IH> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Chris Lilley wrote:
>>>
>>> It isn't the place of the CSS working group to specify what scrolling
>>> mechanism should be used.
>>
>> Not to mandate a particular mechanism, certainly.
>>
>> But it could easily be the place of the CSS WG to allow stylistic
>> control over the form of the mechanism.
IH> Indeed, for example using a '::scrolling-mechanism' pseudo-element which
IH> would allow binding to a behavioural resource. As in:
IH> sidebar::scrolling-mechanism {
IH> binding: url(scrollbars.xml);
IH> }
IH> ...or:
IH> sidebar::scrolling-mechanism {
IH> binding: native-scrolling-mechanism;
IH> }
IH> This could come out of the CSS-based user interface work.
That was what I hoped.
Now, about the scrollbar color and shadow and hilight....
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Received on Friday, 11 April 2003 15:00:36 UTC