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I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position, it makes reading the site painful. So any project that aims to fix this gets my approval! One more

I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position, it makes reading the site painful. So any project that aims to fix this gets my approval! One more pet peeve of mine: websites with giant non-scrolling banners at the top of the page. Thanks for wasting my screen space just so you can show your stupid website logo. As well as the pixel wastage, half the sites can't even make their banner stay still, it wobbles slightly as you scroll and it tries to reposition itself. Or, it breaks page scrolling - page up/page down will skip content hidden under the banner. And while I'm moaning about the web of today: Also annoying are the sites that hide/shrink the banner as you scroll down the page, but make it pop back up as soon as you scroll upwards. If you accidentally move slightly too far down a page, you shift back up a row or two to catch a missing line of text, only to find a banner popping up and obscuring the bit that you specifically tried to view. Argh!

idonthaveaname 11y ago
All of those problems are design issues (in the sense of overall application/site design). They can "easily" be solved by not designing the site to work that way. Sites only work that way because site developers (the whole team) choose to do it and then implement a solution to achieve it. The specs for the various languages and the guidelines on their "best use" already define NOT doing any of those things either by dint of it not being built-in behavior or by already actively recommending against it. There's no need to follow a 2nd, proprietary specification to do what is already the standard.
yoodenvranx 11y ago
> I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position This problem gets worse and worse :( I also hate the trend to forcefully remap my old trusty middle mouse click from "open link in new tab" to "open link in current tab" via javascript.

idonthaveaname 11y ago

All of those problems are design issues (in the sense of overall application/site design). They can "easily" be solved by not designing the site to work that way. Sites only work that way because site developers (the whole team) choose to do it and then implement a solution to achieve it. The specs for the various languages and the guidelines on their "best use" already define NOT doing any of those things either by dint of it not being built-in behavior or by already actively recommending against it. There's no need to follow a 2nd, proprietary specification to do what is already the standard.

yoodenvranx 11y ago

> I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position This problem gets worse and worse :( I also hate the trend to forcefully remap my old trusty middle mouse click from "open link in new tab" to "open link in current tab" via javascript.