[thelist] Formatting Scrollbar

[Simon Willison]

At 04:17 14/07/2002 +0500, Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:
>I just want to know that is formatting of scrollbars appreciated or not
>by the web developers? What is the attitude of professional web
>developers to the trend of formatting scrollbars?

It's a "no". Not a "big no", but it's a bad idea. Why? Because it isn't
part of the W3C's standards - in fact if you use a doctype to put IE6 in to
standards mode (which you should) it won't work at all.

Regards,

Simon Willison
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/