Re: Proposal: position:fixed elements should form new stacking contexts

I support making this change. Anything that brings desktop and mobile
implementations more in line with each other is a good change :)

Cheers,
    -Shane

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> On mobile, asynchronous scrolling of pages with fixed-pos elements is not
>> fully done yet, which may be why you see jank there currently. We do have
>> the limitation that asynchronous scrolling doesn't work for scrolled
>> elements that have been split into multiple layers. As you note, that is
>> pretty rare.
>>
>
> I guess you could say that changing the spec would make it easier for us
> to do asynchronous scrolling of pages that currently interleave fixed-pos
> content with scrolling content. But that would only help us on pages we'd
> have broken the rendering of, so I don't find it a compelling argument :-).
>
> I don't particularly object to changing the spec assuming you have data
> showing that on mobile *and desktop* this doesn't break sites. Especially
> if you're willing to take the lead on the compatibility break on desktop!
> (I may however claim an IOU for "small but slightly-compat-breaking spec
> change to simplify our engine" :-).)
>
> Rob
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