Microsoft has ported Edge-Style scrolling aka “percent-based scrolling” feature to Chromium on Windows, till now this feature is available behind a flag which when enabled ” the mousewheel and keyboard scrolls will scroll by a percentage of the scroller size”.
We all know Microsoft is actively contributing to Chromium after switching to it from EdgeHTML engine for its new Edge browser. Till now the company employes upstreamed more than 2000 changes in Chromium, recently Google asked Edge team to add Edge’s “Move Tab to New Window” context menu option to Chrome, they happily added that and you can now move a tab or selected tabs to the new window by selecting the option present in right-click menu in Chrome Canary 81.
In the support percent-based scrolling bug thread, Microsoft employee says “Windows applications have traditionally scrolled as a percentage of the scroller’s visible size, whereas Chromium currently scrolls a fixed amount, based on the system settings and scroll modality. We would like to introduce the option for Chromium (at least on Windows, potentially other platforms) to be able to perform-based scrolling.
Yesterday a commit has been made to implement the feature. “This CL implements percent-based scrolling for Windows. This makes mouse wheel initiated scrolls be interpreted as a percentage of the size of the intended scroller, instead of being translated directly into pixels. This is done as part of the effort to port Ede-Style scrolling Chromium,”.
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