RE: scroll bar size in width calculations

Good point. It should indeed be conditional. I can also see an approach where scrollbars are transparent and take zero space in layout, in which case it really should be up to UA where to put them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne van Kesteren [mailto:annevk@opera.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 4:17 AM
To: Alex Mogilevsky; robert@ocallahan.org
Cc: www-style@w3.org; Sam Fortiner; Harel Williams; Scott Dickens
Subject: Re: scroll bar size in width calculations

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:09:57 +0100, Alex Mogilevsky
<alexmog@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I agree since there is nearly perfect interoperability, behavior should
> not change. I would prefer the spec to be more clear here though
> (current state is somewhere between ambiguous and incorrect).

That would be good, indeed. However, it should probably be still be
phrased in a way that the user agent only needs to follow these rules if
you are using scrollbars for this purpose and not when using another
mechanism to scroll.

Received on Tuesday, 25 December 2007 18:17:55 UTC