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by tlammens 3630 days ago
Is it me or is it impossible to scroll that page in Safari?
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Gee. Google code not working on non-google browsers. What a surprise.

Speaking as a firefox user, I'm lucky if google docs even loads, let alone works properly. Yet a another example of google talking out of their ass about "supporting web standards"

They are apparently aware of it at least. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882964
We are aware, and it certainly wasn't intentional. Waiting for fix in our impl of Material Design Lite (ironically before we move off it)
What are you gaining by replacing the native scroll functionality?

Are you trying to add "standard Android scrolling inertia" or something? I mean you must be trying to change something, or will I not notice it when it's working?

We didn't replace anything, there seems to be a bug in Safari that we have to work around with a translatez() hack.. should be fixed now.
Sorry for the insult... but you guys really should have tested this across browsers before it even shipped.
Yes, sorry about that.

We currently can’t scroll on the body element due to a limitation in Chrome, where an empty body layer is not being optimized. So we are scrolling in an element. However, that usually requires setting `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` so that you can scroll as usual on iOS. However, that in turn has a lot of hidden implications (like squashing layers, etc. Don’t know the details right now), that make performance suffer greatly.

AFAIK, Safari will change their scroll-on-element behavior. Let’s see what the future brings.

It's not just you. Safari 9.1.1 on El Capitan.
On one hand it is ironic, on another Safari still crashes after you peek into link. Half year later after the bug was introduced.
Same here, Safari 9.1.1 on OS X 10.11.5, uBlock and ABP installed.