Re: [whatwg] activedescendant in viewport (Re: scrollIntoView jarring?)

2008-05-02 Thread David Bolter
Replying to myself below... David Bolter wrote: Hi Rich, activedescendant: Great. If it will work for us, I feel better relying on the user agent for bringing active descendants into view. I thought we were going to require the DHTML author to perform a scroll of some kind? If not, great

[whatwg] activedescendant in viewport (Re: scrollIntoView jarring?)

2008-05-02 Thread David Bolter
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Re: [whatwg] scrollIntoView jarring?

2008-04-30 Thread David Bolter
Peter Kasting wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM, David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Specifically I would ask that: 1. scrollIntoView not do anything in the case that the element is already fully visible (possibly in the middle of

[whatwg] scrollIntoView jarring?

2008-04-30 Thread David Bolter
I have a concern about "3.5.3 Scrolling elements into view": http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-interaction.html#scrollintoview In addition to concerns expressed by Brad Fults (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-October/012655.html), I wa