On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
I meant, corner of the container, rather than actual document rendered
within.
Then can't you work around the restriction by scrolling the contents
inside the iframe and sizing it carefully? (One way to scroll an iframe
to a desired position is to load a URL containing an anchor link
This was addressed in the original proposal (anchors and within-IFRAME
focus() calls). There should be no other useful ways to scroll
different-domain IFRAMEs, I'm hoping (window.scroll* methods are
mercifully restricted in such a case in most browsers).
For example, iGoogle widgets would become disabled if scrolled partially
off the top of the page under your proposal. And even if scrolled back
into view, would remain disabled for a second. With possibly a jarring
visual effect, or alternately, no visual indication that they are
disabled. Hard to decide which is worse.
As per the other thread, this is easily preventable (and a clause for UI
action optimizations is already in the original proposal). I don't see
this as a sufficient argument to dismiss the proposal, quite frankly - it
does not indicate a fatal flaw, but rather a minor issue that is rather
easily worked around.
Cheers,
/mz
