Sent from my iPhone On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com> wrote: > On 4 Aug 2009, at 22:07, David Hyatt wrote: > >> Here's another idea that just occurred to me. We could say that >> shadows, outlines, etc. can never cause a scrolling mechanism to >> appear, but just leave it at that. >> >> In other words you never let the shadows cause scrollbars to be >> created (or destroyed), but if scrollbars happen to already be >> there (because of some other overflow), then you can safely include >> the visual overflow as part of the scrolling area. > > So IOW the shadows (etc) could add to the total range of a > scrollbar, provided the scrollbar would have existed anyway? That > still leads to undesired visual effects in the case of dynamically- > changing shadows, as the size and/or position of the scrollbar thumb > is likely to jump around as the exact size of the overflow changes. > > JK > > It is also undesirable if you had, say, a solid color sidebar against the right edge, and positioning a a shadowed item near that edge suddenly created an unwanted column of white space to the right of that.Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:55:28 UTC
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