- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:38:26 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Robert O'Callahan:
> > - a new section "Creating paged presentations" bas been added. It
> > suggests that it should be possible to express preference for
> > page-based presentation by saying:
> >
> > body { overflow: paged }
> >
> > Or something. This would apply to non-paged media (e.g., screen)
> > to get rid of the scrollbar.
>
> That was confusing.
No, it's obvious :-) Don't you share my hatred of the scrollbar?
> You might still want a scrollbar, or something very like
> a scrollbar, to traverse pages. We certainly need overflow:paged to allow
> the UA to reserve space for UI.
Users will need navigational tools, yes. Exactly how these tools
should look may or may not be specifiable. It's similar to the <video>
element: when the "controls" attribute is added, the UA will provide a
UI. Opera and Mozilla provide slightly different solutions today, and
"overflow: paged" would be the same.
(Of course, one of the first things authors will start asking for is how
to style the UI, so we should be prepared.)
> BTW shouldn't this be defined as a value for overflow-x/overflow-y with
> 'overflow' as shorthand?
Yes.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Sunday, 4 January 2009 23:39:04 UTC