On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:

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

Good point. Even though we need to prevent find or autoscrolling from 
scrolling, it seems we must not prevent explicit programmatic scrolling. I’ll 
add a comment to the bug about this.

    -- Darin

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