- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 17:54:52 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[Boris Zbarsky:] > > On 12/4/12 12:40 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > > 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 the spec would have to do that. If we wanted the auto- > adjusting behavior (which is not obvious), we could just define vw/vh to > be in terms of the ICB. Except that happens to be what > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/#viewport-relative-lengths says > already, except it also talks about "viewport" which is not quite the same > thing, the claims of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing- > block-details > notwithstanding... Right. I think we agree this shouldn't be defined in terms of 'if your scrollbar overlays then don't adjust these units, otherwise do'. > I do think it's a bit weird that if I have a position:fixed element with > no border/padding/margin, then setting "width: 20vh; right: 0" and > "width: 20vh; left: 80vh" don't have the same behavior when there's a > vertical scrollbar. But this keeps coming back to what the use cases for > vh/vw are. > I find it weird too.
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