Scroll Snap Status & History

scroll-snap-status.md

A brief history of scroll snapping specification and releases by various browsers.

Summary

As of August 2018: Edge (IE) and Firefox ship the old deprecated spec, Safari and Chrome (starting from v69) ship the current CR spec.

Additional Details

Date	Status	Specification	Model	Browsers	Features	Notes	Link
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015	WD	css-snappoints	Point based	IE10+11, Edge, Firefox OS (unprefixed)	scroll-snap-type, scroll-snap-points-x, scroll-snap-points-y, scroll-snap-destination, scroll-snap-coordinate	IE blog post, Mozilla intent	20150326
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016	WD	css-snappoints	Point based	IE10+11, Edge, Firefox, Safari iOS 10.3 (prefixed)	scroll-snap-type, scroll-snap-points-x, scroll-snap-points-y, scroll-snap-destination, scroll-snap-coordinate	WG was planning major changes to spec. WebKit blog post, MDN	20150326
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016	WD->CR	css-scrollsnap	Element based	Safari 11+	scroll-snap-type, scroll-snap-align, scroll-snap-margin, scroll-snap-padding	Safari removed the old prefixed API	20160329, 20170824
Dec 2017 - current	CR	css-scrollsnap	Element based	Chrome 69+	scroll-snap-type, scroll-snap-align, scroll-margin, scroll-padding, scroll-snap-stop †	Chrome blog post	scroll-snap-1

† scroll-snap-stop is specifed but not yet implemented by any browser. It is considered at-risk.

Additional References

• https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-snappoints
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160616212557/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/444684/openwebref/CSS/scroll-snap-points/support.html
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh772037(v=vs.85).aspx