On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Darin Adler wrote:

> HTML5 defines this scrolling attribute. It defines it in terms of a CSS 
> overflow property on the frame below. The value scrolling="no" turns into 
> overflow: hidden. Such overflow areas should not be scrolled.
> 
> As I understand it, generally speaking, if we have something like a find 
> feature or autoscrolling code that scrolls outside the normal mechanism, it 
> still should not scroll such an area and needs some other way to deal with 
> content that is hidden by being off the edge of a scrollable area. This can 
> happen with things like large margin values (particularly negative ones) as 
> well as simply overflowing the space provided.

overflow:hidden divs can still be scrolled via JS by setting 'scrollTop', 
however, so it's not clear to me that programmatic scrolling should be 
prevented.

Simon
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