[css-box] Re: [cssom-view] Missing definition of 'scrolling box'

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:20:04 +0100, Stewart Brodie <sbrodie@espial.com>  
wrote:

> CSSOM-View repeatedly uses the term "scrolling box" but never defines it  
> or
> refers to any other specification that might define it (and searching  
> w3.org
> hasn't turned up anything that looks like a definition for it)
>
> For example, in the "scroll an element into view" algorithm, the  
> algorithm
> loops over "each ancestor element or viewport that establishes a  
> scrolling
> box"
>
> What is a "scrolling box"?
>
> What causes an element to "establish a scrolling box"?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23222

I guess I've answered the second question but not really the first. I  
think it is more appropriate for CSS Box to define what a scrolling box is  
and when it is established for a viewport or element.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Thursday, 12 September 2013 09:02:23 UTC