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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by zapzupnz on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:41PM (#20482689)
And yet, desktop browsers have no more need of hijacking the browser's scrolling behaviour than any other browser.
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Re:CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly by paulryanrogers on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:49PM (#20483550)
And leave scroll bar rendering to the browser or OS vendors!?

Think of the pixels!

/s

Seriously though I believe it's often done to make infinite scrolling and scroll-transitions more visually pleasant. (Not that I agree with the sentiment, but if visuals are more important than anything else...)

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