It used to be, but something changed without explanation with this as I had loads of sites working with vw’s until fairly recently. You can fix with percentages easily but it needs some explanation, it could be a mac > pc thing though.
Nah, the vw not taking vertical scrollbar into account bug has been here since forever. The only time you won’t see an issue is when your content is less than page height (no vertical scrollbar to cause an issue)
Nope, this is a recent thing for me as all the sites were using vw with longer form content for a couple of years with no problems, unless the problems are from mac os?
Perhaps you weren’t seeing the horizontal scrollbar because your mac settings were to “show scrollbars only when used” - this is a really frequent case among mac users. I always set mine to be always visible to catch these kind of problems.
It fixed the bug on desktop view, when watching the published site on a mobile device, the bug still exists even though the footer is no longer set to 100vw.
How can that happen? Because you can scroll to the right, the left gradient I set extends too and cuts into the content…
You have a lot of elements being 100vw on your tablet view at which point horizontal scroll starts happening. Go through everything in your design on all breakpoints and change 100vw to 100%.