Re: Scrollbar Code

> [Original Message]
>
> One reason I really don't think that styling the scroll bar should be in 
> the CSS Spec. is because CSS has no business styling something other 
> than the web page.
> CSS is for adding style to web pages, not the UI of the user agent.
> I'm not saying that Mozilla shouldn't use CSS for styling their Themes 
> I'm saying that the person writing CSS for a web page  shouldn't be able 
> to change the user agent interface, that person(s) should only be able 
> to change the web page interface that he or she is making.
> <Arthur/>

I agree that CSS has no business changing the appearance of the chrome
outside the viewport, but  how does changing the appearance of a scrollbar
of a <select> or <div> in HTML affect that?

One area that some people might consider such properties to be
infringing upon the user agent's chrome is when they affect the scrollbars
of the <body> element.  However by existing convention that is part of
the viewport and not the user agent chrome.  Perhaps I've missed
something here, but I've seen nothing in this thread to suggest that
messing around with how the user agent displays any scrollbars outside
of the web page viewport is intended.  I agree that such behavior
would not be desirable, but that is not what is being proposed here.

Received on Friday, 12 September 2003 19:10:02 UTC