[webkit-dev] Scrollbar Changes

[Dave Hyatt]

Peter Kasting wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Dave Hyatt <hyatt at apple.com 
> <mailto:hyatt at apple.com>> wrote:
>
>     If any ports have special needs for this Scrollbar class (or for
>     ScrollbarTheme), send me email or respond in this thread.  I know that
>     both WebKit on OS X and Google Chrome have need of tickmarks
>     support on
>     scrollbars, so this will ultimately need to be built into the
>     rendering
>     model.
>
>
> There is subtle, platform-specific scrollbar behavior that took me a 
> long time to get right when I wrote the Chromium scrollbar 
> implementation, such as exactly how snapping the scrollbar back should 
> work when dragging too far off the bar both horizontally and 
> vertically, and how scrollbars should behave once shrunk to tiny 
> sizes.  I don't think these things will be the same on, say, Windows 
> versus Mac (at least not for ports whose scrollbars pretend to be 
> fully platform-native), so it's not clear how the redesign will 
> accommodate these.
>
> PK
You know most Windows users hate that snapback behavior, right? :)

Anyway, platform-specific behavior can still be modeled by querying the 
theme.  (LookAndFeel may be a better name than Theme if the interface is 
answering behavioral questions though.)

dave
(hyatt at apple.com)