On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Andy Estes wrote:

> 
> On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:
> 
>> What Safari 4 seemed to do was simply provide much greater precision, where 
>> scrolling half a line simply yielded about 20 units instead of being 
>> ignored. So the above code would yield integral deltas in browsers that only 
>> fired events in 3-line increments, but nice fractional deltas in WebKit.
> 
> Some sites choose to completely ignore wheel deltas less than 120.  On 
> devices like trackpads where a slow but continuous scrolling gesture tends to 
> result in a series of small, non-cumulative mousewheel events, the old 
> behavior caused these gestures to be completely ignored.  Yahoo! Mail was one 
> such site where the small fractional values caused compatibility issues.
> 
>> What Safari 5's WebKit does is turn one "line" into 4800 (!) units instead 
>> of 40.
> 
> This could be plausible on a trackpad that scales the wheelDelta based on 
> gesture velocity, although I'd expect a value of 120 for each tick of a 
> conventional wheel mouse.  As Peter said, if you have a test case where 
> Safari disagrees with IE on Windows or Chrome on either platform, please file 
> a bug and we'll investigate.

Just a guess, but we might have a regression when dealing with the continuous 
events generated by a MacBook trackpad.

dave
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