Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/01/07 19:23

Safalra (Stephen Morley) wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:10:36 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Defacta
>>> <vincent.marguerit@gmail.com> writing in news:e150f302-18a8-46ce-8bce-
>>> f2ec71388616@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>> [snip scrollbars all the time in Firefox]
>>>
>>> That could be confusing for a visitor. If there is a scroll bar, the
>>> user might want to try to scroll for more content - and if there is
>>> none? Please don't mess with the UA.
>> Agree. Why would you want to replicate this stupid behavior of IE?
>
>
> It ensures that the content area of the page doesn't change width depending
> on the height of the content. This can be a undesired effect in a situation
> where a visitor is moving between several pages in quick succession (for
> example, when filling in a form split across multiple pages). I've only
> once worked on a site where the effect has been annoying enough for me to
> apply the overflow:scroll rule, but I don't regard the original poster's
> comment as an illegitimate complaint.
>

Ah, but Microsoft has decreed that only thy vertical scrollbar shall be
ever present. It is okay for the horizontal one to pop in and out as
needed and intrude on vertical viewport space! I just find that funny.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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