On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote: > >> (In some cases we can't tell, like if <body> is overflow:auto. In >> that case, I think it's reasonable to either always ignore or always >> assume scrollbars. Current behavior in browsers is to always ignore, >> so I'm fine with sticking to that.) >> > > I think overflow:auto should match overflow:scroll. > > "Ignore" is considerably easier to implement due to cyclic dependencies > with overflow:auto (scrollbar presence depends on element sizes which > depend on scrollbar presence). It could be done, because such dependencies > already exist and are handled by browsers, but I think you'd need a > compelling reason to add more to that mess. > I didn't realize that browsers currently subtract scrollbars for overflow:auto (http://tinyurl.com/d9uza67). I agree that auto and scroll should match. What use-cases are there for vh/vw though? Wouldn't basically all of them want to subtract scrollbars?
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