jquery/jquery-mobile — Issue #3216: Switch fixed toolbars to CSS position:fixed
Author: toddparker
Created: 2011-12-05 02:19:15+00:00
State: open

Issue #1792 was originally opened to move away from the dynamically positioned (via JS) toolbars to use position:fixed but at the time, we decided to pursue the touchOverflow approach because it made fixed toolbars and smoother transitions happen, if only in iOS5 for now.

Brad Frost recently did a fresh batch of testing and re-thinking the use of native position:fixed is warranted because not only does it give us "true" fixed toolbars with minimal code, it is surprisingly well supported and mostly falls back to inline positioning. The worst case scenario is that in some browsers (BB6, Android 2.1), the toolbars scroll with the page before re-positioning themselves but this isn't much different than our current JS-based solution.