Closed Bug 209480 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Scrollbars cause unecessary reflows

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 72540

People

(Reporter: netdragon, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

Details

If you are viewing a document with no scrollbar, and then open one with a
scrollbar, it causes a reflow of the document that makes the document flicker,
and whatnot. On the other hand, Internet Explorer shows a disabled scrollbar. I
think doing it that way would be more appropriate.
I never noticed any flicker. But permanent scrollbar(s) would be extremely
annoying for me as a user and would also conflict with explicit web-design in
many cases. So to the extent there's a reflow, I wouldn't call it unecessary.
This is basically a duplcate however: Bug 179692.
I sifted through a few comments and it doesn't appear as a duplicate. This bug
is about having the vertical scrollbars always visible like in IE 6, and
disabled but still visible if scrolling is not possible (i.e. a short page like
google.com)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72540 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
rkaa: bug 179692 is about windows opened by scripts, and says scrollbars=no
should be ignored when the content is long enough to require scrollbars.  It is
not the same as this bug.
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