[whatwg] scrollIntoView()

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Tue Aug 17 14:33:35 PDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:53:59 +0200, Olli Pettay <Olli at pettay.fi> wrote:
>
>> What is your testcase here? I was looking at the code and seems like
>> scrollToView is sync in Gecko. And a simple testcase showed that
>> window.scrollY was updated right after the method call.
>> (note, scroll events aren't sync).
>>
>
> I was talking about the events. They are synchronous in WebKit as far as I
> can tell. I'm happy to define them as asynchronous though. Being compatible
> with Gecko seems better.


Async events are also generally safer to implement and use.

Rob
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