A brief history of scroll snapping specification and releases by various browsers.
As of August 2018: Edge (IE) and Firefox ship the old deprecated spec, Safari and Chrome (starting from v69) ship the current CR spec.
| 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.