[whatwg] Proposing: "autoscroll" event

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp
<nils at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
> Kyle Simpson <getify at gmail.com> schrieb am Tue, 14 May 2013 16:08:17
> -0500:
>> There have been times this automatic behavior has been quite annoying
>> because of accidential ID/hash overlap.
>
> Please explain how a document subresource can be “accidentally”
> referred to by a URL be “accidental”. I do not understand it.

You're using a hash to store information that is used by JS.  You also
use ids on your page.  These can collide unintentionally, causing a
scroll on page load.

~TJ