- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:10:23 +0900
- To: Sanja Bonic <sanja.bonic@univie.ac.at>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> On 27 Feb 2015, at 21:47, Sanja Bonic <sanja.bonic@univie.ac.at> wrote: > >> The microsoft incarnation of the overflow-style property, which has existed and disappeared in various drafts with different values, would solve this: >> >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh441298.aspx >> >> -ms-overflow-style: auto | none | scrollbar | -ms-autohiding-scrollbar > That's a good thing. One other option is to leave overflow as is and just add an additional > > scrollbar: visible | hidden The naming you suggest is arguably better, but this is essentially the same property, as overflow-style, despite the name, is not a long-hand of overflow. *If* we add it, I do think that 4 values is reasonable: - auto: platform default behavior - visible (scrollbar in ms's proposal): always show - hidden (none in ms's proposal): always hide - dynamic / autohiding / autohiding-scrollbar: show during scroll, hide otherwise > We could also add something that would be implemented like a styleable overlay showing where you are at the page, similar to what a Kindle shows with % of a book completed. Of course, that only makes sense for pages with a lot of content. Couldn't this be done by using the none/hidden value of the property discussed above, and rolling your own using js? Providing styleable native controls is always tricky. - Florian
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