Intent to implement: Fluent Scrollbars.

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Rahul Arakeri

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Jan 28, 2022, 2:50:44 PM1/28/22
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Intent to implement: Fluent Scrollbars. 

 

Contact emails 

Rahul Arakeri: ara...@microsoft.com  

Yaroslav Shalivskyy: yshal...@microsoft.com  

Sahir Vellani: sahir....@microsoft.com  

Olga Gerchikov: gerc...@microsoft.com  

Ben Mathwig: benjamin...@microsoft.com

 

Visual Spec 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EpJnWAcPCxBQo6zPGR1Tg1NACiIJ-6dk7cYyK1DhBWw/edit

 

Summary 

This proposal is to modernize the Chromium scrollbars (both overlay and non-overlay) to fit the Windows 11 Fluent design language. As a part of this effort, we are proposing to update the visual appearance along with some changes to how users interact with overlay scrollbars. 

 

Motivation 

As the rest of Windows has been embracing WinUI and native Fluent controls, certain non-XAML apps like Chromium-based browsers still use the traditional (Win32 looking) scrollbars. As such, we believe that the visual appearance of scrollbars could use an update in the interest of maintaining homogeneity with the rest of Windows. 

In a nutshell, we’re proposing that the default scrollbars should act more like overlay scrollbars, be thinner, have insets and rounded edges. Users will still have an option to select non overlay scrollbars via the "Always show scrollbars" OS setting. Non overlay scrollbars will also be restyled to match Windows theme. For details on scrollbar styling and state transitions, please see the visual spec linked above. 

Also, please note that since some HTML controls (like <textarea> and <select>) depend on the ScrollbarThemes(s) that are being refreshed, they too will also get the new scrollbars.

 

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? 

No, this is aimed at Windows for now. However, it can be made available on Linux too.

 

Ongoing technical constraints 

None.

 

Tracking bug 

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1292117

Mike Taylor

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Jan 28, 2022, 3:19:37 PM1/28/22
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Hi Rahul,

Would you mind creating a chromestatus entry for this intent? (See "Step 0" at http://dev.chromium.org/blink/launching-features for a link).

Also, out of curiosity (because I don't know much about scrollbars) - will this proposed change have an impact on a page's layout?

thanks,
Mike
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Rahul Arakeri

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Jan 28, 2022, 5:52:02 PM1/28/22
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Hi Mike,

 

Sure, I’ve created a chromestatus entry here: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5693137379917824

And yes, this proposed change is expected to have an impact on the page’s layout. In it’s default state, the scrollbars will be in “minimal mode” (aka overlay scrollbars). These will not take up any layout space (whereas, today in Chromium, the default scrollbars take up 17px AFAIK).

The users will however still have an option to “Always show scrollbars” via an OS setting. These will take up layout space (similar to what Chromium scrollbars do today).

 

Thanks,

Rahul

Ian Kilpatrick

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Exciting!

Adding onto Rahul's answer here a little - overlay scrollbars (or scrollbars which take to zero space) already exist on other platforms (e.g. they are the default on OSX). It won't/shouldn't be a web compat concern as most websites handle this already.

An interesting side effect of this will likely be that we'll see more sites (who are built after this change goes in) assume that scrollbars are always zero width (as this is now the default on all platforms except linux?) and as a result more content going forward being broken for those users who opt-out.
(To be clear there isn't much we can do about this - but an interesting side effect).

Ian

Chris Harrelson

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Re Linux: I'm hoping we can just use the same code on Linux so that we have overlay scrollbars everywhere. Rahul, would that work code-wise?

Rahul Arakeri

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Thanks Ian :)

 

Re Chris:

There will be some OS wiring missing (like switching between dark/light modes, "Always show scrollbars”, etc) but most of the code should just work. Note that we've never really tested this feature on Linux so we do not have an exhaustive list of stuff that will not work on Linux.

Steve Kobes

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Keeping non-overlay by default on Linux would be one way to mitigate the risk that Ian mentions, namely that bugs specific to non-overlay mode may creep in and not be noticed quickly.  (This concern applies to some degree both to bugs in websites, and bugs in Chrome.)

Rahul Arakeri

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Re Steve: For Linux, we don't have a strong preference on the default scrollbar mode (and we don’t yet know the scope of work needed since we never tested this feature on Linux).

For Windows however, we recommend having minimal mode as the default as outlined in the visual spec.

 

Re all: Please let us know if we all have consensus on the visual styling of the scrollbars. If you want to see the feature in action, please feel free to check out Microsoft Edge Canary. (Experimental flag edge://flags/#edge-overlay-scrollbars-win-style).

Rahul Arakeri

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Just checking in on this.. Please let us know if you need anything from us to move this discussion along.

 

Thanks,

Rahul

Chris Harrelson

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Feb 4, 2022, 1:28:29 AM2/4/22
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 10:00 PM 'Rahul Arakeri' via blink-dev <blin...@chromium.org> wrote:

Just checking in on this.. Please let us know if you need anything from us to move this discussion along.


Hi Rahul,

Since this is an intent to implement you don't need any official approval from an API owner. Feel free to start landing code. Let me know if you run into any issues, happy to help unblock progress.

Manuel Rego Casasnovas

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Feb 4, 2022, 9:29:08 AM2/4/22
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Overlay scrollbars have caused issues testing things in the past:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/issues/10972

It'd be good to think about what we're going to do with these kind of
tests, and as Steve says maybe it'd be good to keep tests running with
overlay and non-overlay scrollbars to avoid regressions.

Cheers,
Rego

On 01/02/2022 20:42, 'Rahul Arakeri' via blink-dev wrote:
> Re Steve: For Linux, we don't have a strong preference on the default
> scrollbar mode (and we don’t yet know the scope of work needed since we
> never tested this feature on Linux).
>
> For Windows however, we recommend having minimal mode as the default as
> outlined in the visual spec
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EpJnWAcPCxBQo6zPGR1Tg1NACiIJ-6dk7cYyK1DhBWw/edit>.
>
>  
>
> Re all: Please let us know if we all have consensus on the visual
> styling
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EpJnWAcPCxBQo6zPGR1Tg1NACiIJ-6dk7cYyK1DhBWw/edit>
> of the scrollbars. If you want to see the feature in action, please feel
> free to check out Microsoft Edge Canary
> <https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/canary>.
> (Experimental flag /edge://flags/#edge-overlay-scrollbars-win-style/).
>
>  
>
> *From:* Steve Kobes <sko...@chromium.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2022 11:38 AM
> *To:* Rahul Arakeri <ara...@microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* Chris Harrelson <chri...@chromium.org>; Ian Kilpatrick
> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [blink-dev] Intent to implement: Fluent
> Scrollbars.
>
>  
>
> Keeping non-overlay by default on Linux would be one way to mitigate the
> risk that Ian mentions, namely that bugs specific to non-overlay mode
> may creep in and not be noticed quickly.  (This concern applies to some
> degree both to bugs in websites, and bugs in Chrome.)
>
>  
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 2:23 PM 'Rahul Arakeri' via input-dev
> <inpu...@chromium.org <mailto:inpu...@chromium.org>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Ian :)
>
>  
>
> Re Chris:
>
> There will be some OS wiring missing (like switching between
> dark/light modes, "Always show scrollbars”, etc) but most of the
> code should just work. Note that we've never really tested this
> feature on Linux so we do not have an exhaustive list of stuff that
> will not work on Linux.
>
>  
>
> *From:* Chris Harrelson <chri...@chromium.org
> <mailto:chri...@chromium.org>>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 28, 2022 3:45 PM
> *To:* Ian Kilpatrick <ikilp...@chromium.org
> <mailto:ikilp...@chromium.org>>
> *Cc:* Rahul Arakeri <ara...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:ara...@microsoft.com>>; Mike Taylor <mike...@chromium.org
> <mailto:mike...@chromium.org>>; blin...@chromium.org
> <mailto:blin...@chromium.org>; Robert Flack <fla...@chromium.org
> <mailto:fla...@chromium.org>>; wangxianzhu <wangx...@chromium.org
> <mailto:wangx...@chromium.org>>; p...@chromium.org
> <mailto:p...@chromium.org>; inpu...@chromium.org
> <mailto:inpu...@chromium.org>; Yaroslav Shalivskyy
> <yshal...@microsoft.com <mailto:yshal...@microsoft.com>>; Olga
> Gerchikov <gerc...@microsoft.com <mailto:gerc...@microsoft.com>>;
> Sahir Vellani <Sahir....@microsoft.com
> <mailto:Sahir....@microsoft.com>>; Ben Mathwig
> <Benjamin...@microsoft.com <mailto:Benjamin...@microsoft.com>>
> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [blink-dev] Intent to implement:
> Fluent Scrollbars.
>
>  
>
> Re Linux: I'm hoping we can just use the same code on Linux so that
> we have overlay scrollbars everywhere. Rahul, would that work code-wise?
>
>  
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 3:40 PM Ian Kilpatrick
> <ikilp...@chromium.org <mailto:ikilp...@chromium.org>> wrote:
>
> Exciting!
>
>  
>
> Adding onto Rahul's answer here a little - overlay scrollbars (or
> scrollbars which take to zero space) already exist on other
> platforms (e.g. they are the default on OSX). It won't/shouldn't be
> a web compat concern as most websites handle this already.
>
>  
>
> An interesting side effect of this will likely be that we'll see
> more sites (who are built after this change goes in) assume that
> scrollbars are always zero width (as this is now the default on all
> platforms except linux?) and as a result more content going forward
> being broken for those users who opt-out.
>
> (To be clear there isn't much we can do about this - but an
> interesting side effect).
>
>  
>
> Ian
>
>  
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 2:51 PM 'Rahul Arakeri' via blink-dev
> <blin...@chromium.org <mailto:blin...@chromium.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
>  
>
> Sure, I’ve created a chromestatus entry here:
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5693137379917824
> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchromestatus.com%2Ffeature%2F5693137379917824&data=04%7C01%7Carakeri%40microsoft.com%7C56c7c213db54433a31d408d9e4f14171%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637792547151618118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Aip5B8Tt1H%2FfRmK95ZpVweqeEqlYiCyD%2F%2FgI%2BBSqoHo%3D&reserved=0>
>
> And yes, this proposed change is expected to have an impact on
> the page’s layout. In it’s default state, the scrollbars will be
> in “minimal mode” (aka overlay scrollbars). These will _not_
> take up any layout space (whereas, today in Chromium, the
> default scrollbars take up 17px AFAIK).
>
> The users will however still have an option to “Always show
> scrollbars” via an OS setting. These _will_ take up layout space
> (similar to what Chromium scrollbars do today).
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rahul
>
>  
>
> *From:* Mike Taylor <mike...@chromium.org
> <mailto:mike...@chromium.org>>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 28, 2022 12:20 PM
> *To:* Rahul Arakeri <ara...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:ara...@microsoft.com>>
> *Cc:* blin...@chromium.org <mailto:blin...@chromium.org>;
> Robert Flack <fla...@chromium.org <mailto:fla...@chromium.org>>;
> wangxianzhu <wangx...@chromium.org
> <mailto:wangx...@chromium.org>>; p...@chromium.org
> <mailto:p...@chromium.org>; inpu...@chromium.org
> <mailto:inpu...@chromium.org>; Yaroslav Shalivskyy
> <yshal...@microsoft.com <mailto:yshal...@microsoft.com>>;
> Olga Gerchikov <gerc...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:gerc...@microsoft.com>>; Sahir Vellani
> <Sahir....@microsoft.com
> <mailto:Sahir....@microsoft.com>>; Ben Mathwig
> <Benjamin...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:Benjamin...@microsoft.com>>
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [blink-dev] Intent to implement:
> Fluent Scrollbars.
>
>  
>
> Hi Rahul,
>
>  
>
> Would you mind creating a chromestatus entry for this intent?
> (See "Step 0" at
> http://dev.chromium.org/blink/launching-features
> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.chromium.org%2Fblink%2Flaunching-features&data=04%7C01%7Carakeri%40microsoft.com%7C56c7c213db54433a31d408d9e4f14171%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637792547151618118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Kbr6Nk3tg0rCLaHL1J3Kl2kuvmx0gMUJRPyKdcrx3zA%3D&reserved=0>
> for a link).
>
>  
>
> Also, out of curiosity (because I don't know much about
> scrollbars) - will this proposed change have an impact on a
> page's layout?
>
>  
>
> thanks,
> Mike
>
>  
>
> On 1/28/22 2:50 PM, 'Rahul Arakeri' via blink-dev wrote:
>
> *_Intent to implement: Fluent Scrollbars._* 
>
>   
>
> *_Contact emails_* 
>
> Rahul Arakeri: ara...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:ara...@microsoft.com>  
>
> Yaroslav Shalivskyy: yshal...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:yshal...@microsoft.com>  
>
> Sahir Vellani: sahir....@microsoft.com
> <mailto:sahir....@microsoft.com>  
>
> Olga Gerchikov: gerc...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:gerc...@microsoft.com>  
>
> Ben Mathwig: benjamin...@microsoft.com
> <mailto:benjamin...@microsoft.com>
>
>  
>
> *_Visual Spec_* 
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EpJnWAcPCxBQo6zPGR1Tg1NACiIJ-6dk7cYyK1DhBWw/edit
> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1EpJnWAcPCxBQo6zPGR1Tg1NACiIJ-6dk7cYyK1DhBWw%2Fedit&data=04%7C01%7Carakeri%40microsoft.com%7C56c7c213db54433a31d408d9e4f14171%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637792547151618118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Yclc7DUMlvJXamT8JK5AzZEzcmExKlr8iRhPKLrc958%3D&reserved=0>
>
>  
>
> *_Summary_* 
>
> This proposal is to modernize the Chromium scrollbars (both
> overlay and non-overlay) to fit the Windows 11 Fluent design
> language. As a part of this effort, we are proposing to
> update the visual appearance along with some changes to how
> users interact with overlay scrollbars. 
>
>  
>
> *_Motivation_* 
>
> As the rest of Windows has been embracing WinUI and native
> Fluent controls, certain non-XAML apps like Chromium-based
> browsers still use the traditional (Win32 looking)
> scrollbars. As such, we believe that the visual appearance
> of scrollbars could use an update in the interest of
> maintaining homogeneity with the rest of Windows. 
>
> In a nutshell, we’re proposing that the default scrollbars
> should act more like overlay scrollbars, be thinner, have
> insets and rounded edges. Users will still have an option to
> select non overlay scrollbars via the "Always show
> scrollbars" OS setting. Non overlay scrollbars will also be
> restyled to match Windows theme. For details on scrollbar
> styling and state transitions, please see the visual spec
> linked above. 
>
> Also, please note that since some HTML controls (like
> <textarea> and <select>) depend on the ScrollbarThemes(s)
> that are being refreshed, they too will also get the new
> scrollbars.
>
>  
>
> *_Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms
> (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android
> WebView)?_* 
>
> No, this is aimed at Windows for now. However, it can be
> made available on Linux too.
>
>  
>
> *_Ongoing technical constraints_* 
>
> None.
>
>  
>
> *_Tracking bug_* 
>
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1292117 <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.chromium.org%2Fp%2Fchromium%2Fissues%2Fdetail%3Fid%3D1292117&data=04%7C01%7Carakeri%40microsoft.com%7C56c7c213db54433a31d408d9e4f14171%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637792547151618118%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=X%2Bu43jm9mdZWXynGhjX2LYlu8694skgNnrEmSLXRWyI%3D&reserved=0>
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Rahul Arakeri

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Sounds good Chris, we’ll send out a class design doc shortly to get everyone on the same page.

 

Re Manuel: Thanks for your input, we’ll come up with a plan to keep non-overlay scrollbars tests running as well..

Rahul Arakeri

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Hello everyone,

 

Here’s the design doc. Please have a look at it and let us know what you think. 😊

FluentScrollbarsDesignDoc - Google Docs

Rahul Arakeri

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Just checking in to see if anyone got a chance to review the doc.

Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns (or if it looks good as-is). 😊

Steve Kobes

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Thanks for sharing these docs.

I am curious about the rationale for "Hidden Mode" as described in the visual spec.  Why is this mode desired only for non-root scrollers?

Ben Mathwig

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I'm glad you brought this up, it's something we'd like to get your take on. Windows designed it that way in their official spec, but I personally feel like it creates an accessibility issue. I believe Apple hides the panning indicator on macOS, so I suspect their design inspiration came from there.

Steve Kobes

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My own view is that it is user-hostile to fully hide scrollbars, because then you have no visual indication that a region of the page is scrollable.  Though it does seem that this ship has sailed on other OS'es.

Orthogonal to that concern, I think the web platform should try to avoid giving different behavior to root and non-root scrollers.  So if we decide hidden scrollbars are a good idea, then we should hide them for the root scroller too (when the cursor leaves the content area).

But I'd ideally like to have only the minimal and full modes, and not the hidden mode, for all scrollers.

Ben Mathwig

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I agree with both of these things. I'm in support of removing the "hidden" state all together, for all scrollers.

Lukas

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I disagree- the default in Windows apps seems to be the hidden mode, and it seems counterintuitive to implement windows like scrollbars without mirroring the actual Windows experience. I realize it probably won't be the default mode, but if it's possible to at least leave it as a setting for the users that wish to use it, that would be great.
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