RE: [css3-values] Interaction of vw/vh and scrollbars from Sylvain Galineau on 2012-12-04 (www-style@w3.org from December 2012)

From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 17:40:16 +0000
To: James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>
CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3C4041FF83E1E04A986B6DC50F0178291BEAB224@TK5EX14MBXC221.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

[James Robinson:]

>Overlay style scrollbars do not change the layout width/height of the page and so should be 
>excluded from vw/vh, IMO.

Precisely. And so is there a compelling reasons for the spec to define which type of scrollbars 
cause which units to adjust? I don't think Values & Units should define or describe UI; and it
seems at least three implementations agree to ignore them.

Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:41:16 UTC