LGTM2

On Monday, August 17, 2026 at 10:58:27 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> Hey Alex,
>
> Thank you. The plan you outlined sounds good. We could do that for sure.
>
> Cheers,
> Free
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM Alex Russell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Free,
>>
>> Dan and I were reviewing this Intent today, and I wanted to thank you 
>> specifically for the work that has gone into characterizing the compat 
>> risk. The linked Google Doc is the sort of research we'd hope to see for a 
>> change with such a large potential blast radius of breakage, and it does a 
>> lot to cabin my personal unease.
>>
>> Assuming we can come to agreement on a rollout plan, LGTM1.
>>
>> As a strawman proposal for rollout, how about:
>>
>>   - Two or three releases enabled by default in Dev and Beta channels
>>   - Active DevRel outreach in this period soliciting feedback
>>   - ...and if all of that comes back "clean", a rollout with a 
>> kill-switch to disable the new behaviour should we encounter wide-scale 
>> breakage
>>
>> How does that sound?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 11:26:16 AM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote:
>>
>>> *Contact emails*
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> *Explainer*
>>> https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/single-axis-scroll-containers
>>>
>>> *Specification*
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/13903 
>>>
>>> *Summary*
>>> Extends the `overflow` property to support scrollable values together 
>>> with `clip` (for example, `overflow: scroll clip`). This allows `position: 
>>> sticky` to be constrained by different ancestor scroll containers per axis, 
>>> and gives authors a way to ensure an axis using `overflow: clip` stays in 
>>> place. 
>>>
>>> *Blink component*
>>> Blink>Layout 
>>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ELayout%22>
>>>
>>> *Web Feature ID*
>>> overflow <https://webstatus.dev/features/overflow> 
>>>
>>> *Motivation*
>>> The CSS `overflow` property currently allows behavior to be specified 
>>> per axis, but it does not provide a way to make a scroll container 
>>> responsible for only a single axis. The affects features that depend on 
>>> scroll containers, namely `position: sticky` and DOM scroll APIs. For 
>>> example, authors may want to use `position: sticky` to create a table that 
>>> keeps both the top and left labels in view while the user scrolls through 
>>> large content. Or they may want to create a carousel that is visually 
>>> clipped on one axis, while ensuring that `scrollIntoView()` does not 
>>> unexpectedly move that clipped axis. Please see the explainer for more 
>>> details. 
>>>
>>> *Initial public proposal*
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/865
>>>
>>> *TAG review*
>>> https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1222 
>>>
>>> *TAG review status*
>>> Issues addressed
>>>
>>> *Goals for experimentation*
>>> None 
>>>
>>> *Risks*
>>>
>>>
>>> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
>>> # overflow: scroll clip overflow: scroll clip used to be converted into 
>>> overflow: scroll hidden, but this will no longer happen, so there is a 
>>> compatibility risk. Please see the analysis for more details. (
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_4zPKOQ8S-Ttn-4BTFaIR7YWkkQYNiF_QlTsOK-k7uE/edit?usp=sharing)
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> *Gecko*: No signal (
>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1418)
>>>
>>> *WebKit*: No signal (
>>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/680)
>>>
>>> *Web developers*: Positive (
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8286) 
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9140 
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/865
>>>
>>> *Other signals*:
>>>
>>> *WebView application risks*
>>>
>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such 
>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? 
>>> *No information provided* 
>>>
>>>
>>> *Debuggability*
>>> *No information provided* 
>>>
>>> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, 
>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
>>> Yes
>>>
>>> *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?*
>>> Yes 
>>>
>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=single-axis
>>>
>>> *Flag name on about://flags*
>>> *No information provided* 
>>>
>>> *Finch feature name*
>>> SingleAxisScrollContainers 
>>>
>>> *Rollout plan*
>>> Will ship enabled for all users
>>>
>>> *Requires code in //chrome?*
>>> False
>>>
>>> *Tracking bug*
>>> https://issues.chromium.org/440038212
>>>
>>> *Measurement*
>>> Usage is tracked with one broad use counter and three targeted compat 
>>> counters: SingleAxisScroller (
>>> https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/5862): 
>>> Counts every element with overflow clip on one axis and a scrollable value 
>>> on the other — all content this feature could affect. Note that the 
>>> following three have landed quite recently: 
>>> SingleAxisScrollerOverscrollBehavior (
>>> https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/5976): 
>>> Counts those elements that also set a non-auto overscroll-behavior on the 
>>> clip axis, where scroll chaining could change. 
>>> SingleAxisScrollerPositionSticky (
>>> https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/5975): 
>>> Counts sticky elements whose horizontal and vertical constraints now 
>>> resolve against different scroll containers. SingleAxisScrollerAutoMinSize (
>>> https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/5977): 
>>> Counts flex/grid items whose automatic minimum size now applies where it 
>>> previously collapsed to zero, so layout can change. The last two fire only 
>>> when the new behavior actually changes something, so if many sites were 
>>> affected it would show directly in these metrics.
>>>
>>> *Estimated milestones*
>>> Shipping on desktop 153 
>>> Shipping on Android 153 
>>> Shipping on WebView 153 
>>>
>>> *Anticipated spec changes*
>>>
>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or 
>>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues 
>>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may 
>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of 
>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way). 
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5067363861004288?gate=6477880110481408
>>>
>>> *Links to previous Intent discussions*
>>> Intent to Prototype: 
>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/69b81554.050a0220.87ff1.0e40.GAE%40google.com
>>>
>>>
>>> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status 
>>> <https://chromestatus.com>. 
>>>
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