{"id":72,"date":"2009-03-22T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T03:38:11","slug":"paving-cowpaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2009\/03\/paving-cowpaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Paving cowpaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now we have two brows\u00ader-spe\u00adcif\u00adic ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/webkit.org\/blog\/363\/styling-scrollbars\/\">style scroll\u00adbars and man\u00adgle acces\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty<\/a>. No doubt the imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of this was meant to rein in devel\u00adop\u00aders using JavaScript to build fake scroll\u00adbars using DIVs. My opin\u00adion: before it was rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to build cus\u00adtom scroll\u00adbars that ignore user pref\u00ader\u00adences for size and colour, and now it\u2019s eas\u00adi\u00ader. Here\u2019s look\u00ading for\u00adward to pages with <code>::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 2px }<\/code> .<\/p>\n<p>The ram\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions of sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00ading of con\u00adtent and pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion still haven\u2019t quite sunk in yet to this devel\u00adop\u00ader group. Do what\u00adev\u00ader you want in the <em>con\u00adtent<\/em> area of the page (obvi\u00adous\u00adly pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion to usability\/accessibility), but stay away from over\u00adrid\u00ading OS-lev\u00adel con\u00adcepts. Scroll\u00adbars are not in your domain, nor are modal dia\u00adlog box\u00ades or right-click menus.<\/p>\n<p>Aside:<\/p>\n<p>For me this bleeds into appli\u00adca\u00adtions-in-the-brows\u00ader, of which I have an opin\u00adion as well: in the ear\u00adly days it was like push\u00ading a cart with square wheels; now the cart\u2019s a Fer\u00adrari and the wheels are pen\u00adtagons. The brows\u00ader isn\u2019t suit\u00aded to what you\u2019re doing, and the only rea\u00adson you want to run there is thin-client ubiq\u00adui\u00adty and ease of dis\u00adcov\u00adery. Fea\u00adtures that don\u2019t belong in a brows\u00ader (Web Sock\u00adets, Serv\u00ader-side events, <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.whatwg.org\/htdig.cgi\/whatwg-whatwg.org\/2009-March\/018722.html\">Per\u00adsis\u00adtent Work\u00aders <em>omg wtf need more tray icons<\/em><\/a>) are being shoe\u00adhorned in to sat\u00adis\u00adfy require\u00adments already ful\u00adfilled by the OS when real\u00adly you should be pimp\u00ading your grander wish\u00ades for OS-lev\u00adel vir\u00adtu\u00adalised thin-client tech to the OS com\u00adpa\u00adnies instead.<\/p>\n<p>Browsers should not need a task man\u00adag\u00ader, per\u00adsis\u00adtent threads, local data\u00adbase stor\u00adage or the abil\u00adi\u00adty to open arbi\u00adtrary&nbsp;ports.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways I empathise with the intent of the XHTML2 WG to recre\u00adate the lan\u00adguage as a doc\u00adu\u00adment for\u00admat, not some bas\u00adtardised \u2018<em>this does\u00adn\u2019t fit our appli\u00adca\u00adtion par\u00ada\u00addigm so let\u2019s rede\u00adfine its semat\u00adics<\/em>\u2019 approach that app-in-brows\u00ader devel\u00adop\u00aders have cap\u00adi\u00adtalised on. Maybe we should\u00adn\u2019t have intro\u00adduced DIV but made CSS capa\u00adble of group\u00ading arbi\u00adtrary sequen\u00adtial ele\u00adments instead (that\u2019d still be nice btw; \u2018ul#blah ~ ul#argh { background:blue }\u2019 anyone?).<\/p>\n<p><em>Edit: updat\u00aded incor\u00adrect word, added empha\u00adsis, clar\u00adi\u00adfied statement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we have two brows\u00ader-spe\u00ad\u00adcif\u00adic ways to style scroll\u00adbars and man\u00adgle acces\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. No doubt the imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of this was meant to rein in devel\u00adop\u00aders using JavaScript to build fake scroll\u00adbars using DIVs. My opin\u00adion: before it was rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to build cus\u00adtom scroll\u00adbars that ignore user pref\u00ader\u00adences for size and colour, and now it\u2019s easier.&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}