Re: padding lost in overflow

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> After thinking through it more, yeah, you're right.  We don't want to
> *actually* mess with the boxes, but we *do* want to allow people to
> use 'padding' for the end edges of their scrollable content the same
> way they can with the start edges.
>
> So yeah, just growing the overflow area by the amount of the padding
> along the end edges would work.
>

I'm not totally opposed to that idea, but there is still going to be
confusion about what the padding box and content boxes of the scrolled
element actually are --- in authors' minds, if not the spec. So I'm not
convinced it's a clear win. I'd like to hear the opinions of more people.

Rob
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