On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 11:17 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:27 AM, David Perrell wrote: >>> Sidle up the Blinkin Scroll Bar, folks, have a round on me. >>> >>> http://hpaa.com/firefox/shadow.htm >>> >>> (Hoping to show the silliness of insistence that shadows are somehow more >>> sacrosanct when they fall right and down.) >> >> Nobody is actually saying that. Not showing a scrollbar for top/left >> overflow (as has been said in previous messages) has nothing to do with the >> type of overflow. > > The point is not that anyone misses having a scroll bar for top/left > overflow, it is that no one misses having the clipped part of the shadow > there, and also would not miss the clipped part of the shadow on the > bottom/right. . Setting aside the historical reasons for not showing > scrollbars for abs pos items in the negative too/left regions, what it is > actually doing to shadows there is completely resonable and desired, and is > no less desired for the bottom/right. Even if it is not truly an orthoganal > cause for the effect, the effect of trimming the non-visual impact of > layout-less decorations when they come to the edge that way is what we want > on all four sides. And that "we" includes me as well. Brad summarizes my feelings admirably. ~TJReceived on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:43:08 UTC
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