Inert URL Bar

Hiding and Showing the URL bar will no longer resize the initial containing block or elements sized with vh units. This matches iOS Safari.

Comments

While Firefox hasn't expressed any explicit signal, engineers weren't opposed. Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314686 for Firefox to match Safari and Chrome as well. Edge doesn't use a moving URL bar so this doesn't apply there.

Demo

• http://bokand.github.io/demo/urlbarsize.html

Documentation

• https://github.com/bokand/URLBarSizing

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for Android release 56

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• bokan@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14