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Bug 10826 - i18n comment 22 : location of an element's vertical scrollbar when it is not the user agent window's overall vertical scrollbar
Summary: i18n comment 22 : location of an element's vertical scrollbar when it is not ...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2010-09-29 13:03 UTC by i18n bidi group
Modified: 2011-01-22 20:38 UTC (History)
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Description i18n bidi group 2010-09-29 13:03:15 UTC 
Comment from the i18n review of:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Comment 22
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-below-body [http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/#vertical-scrollbar-below-body]
. Here is the proposal made there:

The HTML and CSS specifications should state that the vertical scrollbar of an element below <body> and of the <body> element of a document being displayed in a frame or iframe should be on the "end" side relative to the element's direction.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-09-29 16:28:08 UTC 
Seems like an issue for CSS, since whether the scrollbar appears at all is controlled by CSS properties.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-10-04 23:53:17 UTC 
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: Where the scroll bars render is a presentational concern, and out of scope for HTML. HTML barely mentions scroll bars, in fact (and only in relation to historical APIs).