Feature description:
Pull to refresh is a feature of Mobile Chrome (and Opera) where once the user overscrolls the page, the browser shows a refresh animation and refreshes the page. The UX pattern was popularized by native mobile applications as a way to fetch new content which in the context of the browser translates to refreshing the page. However refreshing the page does not make sense and is not relevant for some mobile web applications and can be disruptive and costly.
We propose a non-inherited CSS property overscroll-action, that may be specified on the root element and applies to the viewport. It controls the permitted overscroll actions by the browser.
Design doc: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1cqyeFamVmSu5EN5sBpQFB3Madm-41BtJEMDEbW1xdh4/edit?usp=sharing
Comment 1 by sunyunjia@chromium.org
, Oct 17 2016