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Intervention: Passive Event Listener for `type == "mousewheel" && target == window && function_name == "ssc_wheel"`

Category
User input
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 61)
Intent stage
None

Summary

The smoothscroll.js code is largely broken and is preventing us from shipping scroll top interop. With the scroll top interop behavior activated sites fail to scroll at all with the wheel event. This library was corrected a few years ago but the web continues to clone the broken version and we have been blocked in shipping this long implemented fix for interop. Smooth scroll has been enabled in Chrome for a number of releases so using custom smooth scrolling is not necessary anymore.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yMAUU0wCeP7BIlQujqfwe3LBnG0QJaqymbkZwor9u60/edit#

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