- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:05:28 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:12 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:07 PM, David Hyatt<hyatt@apple.com> 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. > > To be honest, that's what I thought we were asking for. I'm pretty > sure it's what I intended to ask for, at least. > > What's the difference between this and what you thought was being > proposed before? The difference is that it would still muck with the design by widening and/or deepening the page beyond the where everything else on the page is racked into. So if there was a scrollbar due to content not fitting, the user wouldn't stop at the natural page limits when they scrolled down and/or right. >
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