Re: Taking a look at overflow: pan

On Jul 29, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:

> I've been working on a project which implements tiled scrolling... 
> Today from Ajaxian I saw the YUI 3 update, included in it is an implementation 
> of ScrollView. 
> 
> ScrollView is in some sense: overflow: pan; 
> 
> It's similar to overflow: scroll, but instead of showing scroll bars, it allows 
> the user to pan across the element, showing scroll indicators. 
> 
> This causes some implementation difficulties when it comes to text selection. 
> 
> Android, iOS (Apple) and YUI are supporting this style of overflow/scrolling. 

iOS does not support panning inside of overflow regions inside the page, only at the page level.
This is therefore a detail of the UA's scrolling implementation.

It's not clear to me that this is anything other than a UA design decision, based on the
characteristics of the user-interaction of the device the page is being presented on.

Simon