[gavinpc]

While I completely agree with your principle, I find myself interested in shimming the not-yet-standard "sticky" positioning, which is in draft specifications and available in bleeding-edge [0]. Depending on how many items use it, you would have to write your scroll handlers carefully.

In cases where this would really improve usability, I consider it an exception to my general antipathy towards "bells and whistles", since it will be native before too long.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position

[mmahemoff]

Your comment fits the general pattern of "I want to keep it simple but if I could just do X" which is entirely valid from a UX perspective and the reason why any generalised janky buster is a good step forward (assuming it does the job, and with minimial overhead).

[i_am_ralpht]

sticky isn't expected to change much, and ships prefixed (and with accelerated compositing) in iOS 7.

[madeofpalk]

But it remains unavailable in Google Chrome and they don't plan on implementing it until it hits the standards board.