931804 - In supported browsers, use position:sticky rather than JavaScript for TOC

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[sjw]

What did you do?
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It would be nice if supported browsers use CSS position:sticky instand of JS for the menu on the right.
Unsupported ones use a JavaScript fallback.

What happened?
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What should have happened?
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Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Using position:sticky would be cool, but given that it is very new (and behind flags in Firefox and likely in Chrome), we should not block the upcoming release.

But I'm pretty sure David Walsh will be very happy to experiment this after the rush.

Up to Ali for the final decision on blocking.

Comment 2

[ali spivak]

not a blocker.

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

No point in even attempting this yet, as support is almost nothing

http://caniuse.com/css-sticky

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Quick update:  Blink has temporarily removed sticky support until the spec is finalized.

Comment 5

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Does it make sense to keep this bug open? By the time position:sticky is well-supported, we will have certainly revisited the styles that are applied to the TOC, if it even still exists in the same form. And even if we do not happen upon this change shortly after standardization, little is lost by keeping the JavaScript around.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.