Re: Scrollbar bug on OS X

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm curious how _any_ program manages to do this calculation in a
> reasonable amount of time; do they really lay-out the _entire_
> document ahead of time?

AFAIK, yes.  HTML rendering engines do the rendering "eagerly" as they
receive the HTML data.  They typically do it in a separate thread, so while
the page is being rendered things aren't stable on screen (objects may
still move, and the slider may change size).


        Stefan