I decided to create this thread to move the discussion about persistent scrollbars off of Bugzilla. If you want to know when replies are made, you can click a checkbox when you reply to be notified when people add comments to the thread.
I'd like to simply mention that overflow-x and overflow-y are in the specs for CSS3 as David Baron pointed out: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-ui-20 ... overflow-x
Therefore, the only thing that is up for debate, it seems, is what the value of those two properties are by default. That is off-topic for a Bug report. Bug description:
We could eliminate at least one reflow per page load on big pages if we always
showed the vertical scroll bar (like Windows IE).
There was some talk about this recently. This might therefore be a dup.
To add more information... The bars would probably be greyed when there is no need to scroll.
Are you for or against persistent scrollbars, and why?