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> You can do that to, moving your mouse over the window reveals the scrollbars, as does scrolling.

The problem with revealing scrollbars it that they then obscure whatever was shown there before. (Or reflow the page, dear god). If you use that space, well you can't see it when you're scrolling; and if you don't use that space why not show the scrollbar the whole time?



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