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Comment from the i18n review of: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ Comment 21 At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/html5-bidi/ Editorial/substantive: S Tracked by: AL Location in reviewed document: undefined [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html#contents] Comment:This is a part of the proposals made by the "Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML" W3C First Public Working Draft. For a full description of the use cases, please see http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#vertical-scrollbar [http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#vertical-scrollbar] . Here is the proposal made there: The HTML and CSS specifications should state that the user agent window's overall vertical scrollbar should be located independent of the direction of any page element, despite being otherwise controlled by the style of the <body> element. (Thus, it should be located on the the "end" side relative to the user agent chrome direction.)
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The HTML spec doesn't even require that there be a window in the first place, let alone a scroll bar. Plus, user interface decisions are explicitly left up to user agents since they represent quality-of-implementation issues and not interoperability issues. Thus, this is out of scope for HTML.