[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 195158] Maximum element size is too restrictive for virtual scrolling

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195158

Simon Fraser (smfr) <simon.fraser at apple.com> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Simon Fraser (smfr) <simon.fraser at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Andy E from comment #5)
> I'd be really grateful for some technical feedback on this issue, so that I
> can further build the case for a spec addition if it is not technically
> feasible to increase these limits. I appreciate any time spared to
> investigate and respond and understand that this may not be a priority for
> WebKit. 
> 
> Mozilla and Chrome have signalled that the change would be large for them
> since it requires using 64-bit numbers for layout object sizes (or
> sacrificing other data like sub-pixel precision, which they are not prepared
> to do).
> 
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=932109
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527883

Our position aligns with Blink and Gecko. We have no intention of making the wide-spread changes that would be required to fix this bug.

Instead, if you need this kind of scaling, you'll have to make some sort of virtual scroller that keeps the element size within reasonable limits.

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