"Axis locking" doesn't work in some cases

[irvnriir]

Github's file editor .

[fastaddons]

The axis lock is enabled only when the X and Y scrollbars are on two different elements - usually you have the main Y scrollbar which you don't want to scroll when scrolling some nested horizontal X element.
On the other hand when working with some map or image, you want to scroll it in both axis.

Maybe I could detect that the scrolling content is editable and enable axis lock. That way it should fix online editors while keeping maps and images freely scrollable.

[irvnriir]

It also should work on all HTML content which is other than certain specific, like maps .

[nyanpasu64]

Specifically in my case, I have a landscape Google Doc with outline view open on the left, which is too wide to fit in a half-screen-wide browser window. By default I want vertical scrolling only, but I also want to be able to quickly scroll between the outline and main document views. It would be convenient to enable axis lock for all sites, so I can only scroll vertically unless I initiate a horizontal/diagonal scroll, or (possibly) make a large horizontal movement after initiating a vertical scroll.

(Honestly Google Doc's outline view could be improved so I wouldn't need horizontal scrolling.)